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Raised to be White

by lizlanguage, parenting, racial identityPosted on February 7, 201313 Comments

While I’m writing about white supremacy in Christianity for school, I’m also caring for our baby daughter (now nearly seven months old). So as I’m reading about how we become white, I can’t help but think of how she is becoming white, even at this young age. We talk about gender in our house and …

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What Color is Your God?

by lizlanguage, racial identity, theologyPosted on December 28, 20124 Comments

What color is your God? I envy my friends their relationship with rocks and rivers, ocean and trees. God for me will always wear a human face: Our Lady, blessed mother of the world, and Jesus. I’m knee-deep in a thesis for my master’s degree about racism and White Christianity. Womanist scholar Mukti Barton writes …

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Body Truth-Telling & Tenderness

by lizhistory, languagePosted on March 14, 20123 Comments

Three weeks ago I hurt my back. It has been hard to walk, to sit, to write. I stumbled around and stopped writing, and when I finally picked up my pen again, I wrote this: There are many types of offerings in the world’s religions. Some people leave cups of grain or lentils, made into …

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Everydayness & G*d-in-Everybody

by lizhistory, language, white privilegePosted on January 31, 20123 Comments

I had the honor of sharing coffee and conversation today with my dear friend Rev. Melissa Bennett and new friend Dr. Dapo Sobomehin. We talked for a long time. We talked about isolation and the lack of accountability, how white and brown and black people are afraid of one another, how white people think and act …

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But I Don’t Have a Culture…

by lizappropriation, history, languagePosted on January 26, 20125 Comments

…so why can’t I borrow yours? Yours is so cool. I’m so fascinated. I’ll give it back. I promise. Half-awake this morning I had a dream that I was speaking to a large group of women of various ages, sizes and colors. I talked about culture, identity and history. I had a U.S. History textbook …

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