White as Snow?

I always wonder about this phrase:  White as snow.  Is it appropriate to sing about being washed white as snow?   Is it an unintentionally racist expression?     I guess I would rather stay away from images that seem to equate white with goodness and dark or black with evil or wrong.  
How about that old hymn that [...]

The Blood of Jesus or Tide Stain Remover?

The worship service I attended this morning concluded with Holy Communion.   Despite the winter weather and the rampant germs, the method was “intinction.”   One is given a broken off piece of bread from a server who presumably has clean hands (and a pure heart?) and then one dips it in the cup, hoping that the [...]