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A Call to Lament
From the church shooting in Charleston to the SCOTUS ruling on same sex marriage it’s been a wild week. And when you add the news headlines of the last several months it becomes clear and apparent that...
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How can the church address fatherlessness?
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27) Manhood Restored by...
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Propaganda: Why I don’t have cable or a PS4
The other day a Comcast rep came to the door. He started asking whether I had cable and whether I played video games. My answer was no to the first question and sometimes with my kids to the second. He...
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Reflections on September 11th
Thinking about this dreadful day some 13 years ago and especially about what is going on today can get some people sad. Others may become vengeful and angry. While I grieve over the atrocities of Al...
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My struggle to write as a black evangelical
I have been struggling to write. At least write for this blog. Part of it is due to my own exhaustion and needing to have a come to Jesus moment. That’s for another blog post. Another reason is because...
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Easter and Drunk in Love Remixes
Yes. Somebody had to do it. They had to go there…they just had to. If you don’t know by now there are a boatload of gospel remixes to Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love.” This happens to be the best one on a...
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The Myth of the Minority Associate Pastor
Move over Zeus and Hercules! The Evangelical church has a mythology that will blow your mind. If you eavesdrop on certain conversations you will be amazed at the things that are believed just...
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7 Ways A Non-White Student Can Survive Seminary Without Losing Their Mind
The other day I got an email from a friend about how he was getting frustrated and tired of reading books and hearing lectures on Eurocentric theology and church history. He wanted to have some color...
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Have You Ever Struggled To Find Your Voice?
Sometimes I want to reach down into my insides and rip my heart out. Figuratively of course. I want to study and investigate what makes me tick. Jeremiah the ancient Hebrew prophet said “The heart is...
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10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Teach Your Kids To Be Nice
Nice. One of the most overused and banal words in the English language. What does it even really mean? So many things can be “nice” and sometimes this niceness is substituted for being Christian. As a...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr….Public Enemy #1?
So tomorrow we will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There will be parades, news stories and everyone will get the day off. Oh yeah and I can’t forget some will celebrate...
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What if America did go back to the Bible?
One of things that annoys me more than anything is when someone talks about how they wish things were like the good old days. Really? It grates on me like fingernails on a chalkboard. What good old...
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The Mission Field: Irian Jaya or Englewood?
An interesting conversation transpired over the dinner table on Christmas day. The subject: gang violence in inner city Chicago. We all know the statistics and if you don’t know you can read about them...
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Christianity is not the White Man’s Religion Pt 6
Christianity had a firm footing in Africa and Asia and then some major things developed during the Middle Ages to shift the center of power to Europe. But what if I told you that by the year 2050 half...
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What’s wrong with the way you read the Bible?
Confession: I hate cleaning up after my kids. It annoys me to no end. It seems like everyday they leave a trail of school work, toys, clothes, and food throughout the house. It seems like they always...
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Christianity is not the White Man’s Religion Pt 5
Last week I talked about how Christianity had a firm footing in Africa and Asia and what we now call the Middle East way before it took hold in Europe. So what happened? How come the church has...
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Christianity is the Not The White Man’s Religion Pt 4: Syriac Christianity
If you look at the usual maps of Christian expansion most maps focus on Europe. From Antioch Paul and Barnabas (later Silas) go off into Asia Minor and Greece and preach Jesus and churches are formed....
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Christianity is Not the White Man’s Religion Pt 3
Last week I talked about the many “Christianities” of the early church. Yes there was not just one Christianity but many “Christianities” What do I mean by that? Christianity was not a monolithic...
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Ethiopia: One of the first Christian Nations
This past Thursday I was sick as a dog y’all. I came home from the circus with the kids and my head was pounding. On top of that I couldn’t concentrate on anything. I was a hot mess. Surprisingly I...
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Christianity is Not The White Man’s Religion Pt 2
So last week I talked about how the idea of White Jesus is utter foolishness because the modern categories of race were not invented. Even if we did go with the modern categories of race Jesus would...
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