by Starlette Thomas | Aug 2, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
If you want to know if your church believes in democracy, then go to a church business meeting. Pay attention to who is handing out the minutes, giving the financial report and moderating the meeting. Take note of who is sitting on several committees, namely the...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 26, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Two billionaires race to outer space as the earth burns in the western United States. It’s not the beginning of a joke. It’s certainly not funny. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have been given too much space, too much airtime on cable news outlets. I need another...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 19, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Church hurts. I learned this painful combination of words as a seminarian. Our professor assigned a book titled Nasty People by Jay Carter. I read the book and quoted it as required in a paper for the name of a class I no longer remember. But the words didn’t mean...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 16, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
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by Starlette Thomas | Jul 12, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
COVID-19 wiped out the desire for a beach body for many of us in 2020. Our priorities, centered around physical and economic survival, did not lead us to focus on personal appearance as athletic apparel and sweatpants replaced dry-cleaned clothing. We all became couch...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
A Mexican proverb states, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” It reminded me of another that I learned from my mother. Speaking of an unsolved murder mystery, she told me, “The ground doesn’t talk.” But it does. Blood cries from the ground, from...
