I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist.

It's uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, "I've been writing this book all my life," but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times he was living in, which bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day. Our Black lives are an open book filled with sentence upon sentence of marginalization, pages of apartheid, and chapters of separate and unequal. Now this season reveals volumes of violence against Black people in America, ...