by Starlette Thomas | Jun 28, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“I quit.” It’s what at least 649,000 retail workers said in April. Almost 3% of U.S. workers quit. “My life isn’t worth a dead-end job,” 23-year-old Aislinn Potts of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, told The Washington Post recently. While some employers have raised their...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 21, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to practice a Christian faith that says this is all there is to belief.” I said this in a conversation with a Christian leader, but I don’t think he heard me. It has been said for years but much of the North American church was...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 14, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Instructions. I don’t read them. I’m a member of the group that likes to look at the box and then figure out how it all goes together. I’m sure there is a name, a label for that. Speaking of which, I don’t read labels. I am not counting calories. I’m a budding...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 7, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
I don’t want to remember. For all of the stories I tell, there are those that I would rather not repeat. But the memories are in my body. They move with me, packing up and travel along whether the occasion calls for it or not. They show up no matter how discreet....
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 1, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Story. When I was a child, we couldn’t say the word “lie.” It was a bad word, comparable to cussing. Three letters, it was a big word that was only spoken at a certain age, as an adult and a rite of passage. Children also couldn’t call an adult a liar or say that an...
by Starlette Thomas | May 17, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
It’s track number 24 and the first verse: “The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who live in it.” It’s a part of a really long album called The Psalms with appearances by various artists. The artist on this song is David, who is not a...
