by Starlette Thomas | Sep 2, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
It took me a long time to find my voice after being “seen and not heard,” talked over, talked out of, talked about, mansplained and victim-blamed. It’s a wonder I have any part of my tongue left. To be clear, I didn’t feel compelled to hold my tongue or bite it....
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 22, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
We need safer words. Last week, I said this to the conversation partners who gathered under a tent at the Wild Goose Festival to hear my rifts on somebodiness. Even the letters of the alphabet are considered dangerous. Even when abbreviated, they are considered...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 29, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
“I’ve been called everything but a child of God.” The raceless gospel follows the longstanding Black Church tradition of affirming the personhood of bodies racialized as black and centering the self-determination of persons of African descent in America, despite...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 16, 2024 | Feature, Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
I have been leaving toxic environments since I was twelve years old. Prepared for the coming of Jesus as a new convert, I’m surprised my list now includes the segregated North American church. I leave stores when I am followed around under the suspicion of...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 8, 2024 | Feature, Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
The raceless gospel delivered me from white supremacy. Before receiving this message, I questioned my relationship with Jesus, given the history of Christianity in North America. Namely, American slavery and the belief that people racialized as white have supreme...
