Black Spirituality Newsbriefs :

God is beyond race and gender

It started as a typical Sunday in the late 1960s as my family made our way to attend Mass at St. Leo’s Church in Milwaukee’s central city. But a single event would shatter our weekend and make an indelible impression on my 11-year-old mind. We arrived to discover that someone had spray-painted the face of the Mary statue on the church grounds to make it black.  More…