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30 Reasons I Love Being Black Part Two
So in the last post I wrote out the 30 reasons I love being black. In the next couple of weeks I am going to unpack each of the reasons and I hope that if you are black you begin to love and understand...
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30 Reasons I Love Being Black Part 3
Continuing on with our series 30 Reasons I love being black. Here are reasons 6-10 6. George Washington Carver (That dude that made 400 products from the peanut and sweet potato). Carver is an example...
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30 Reasons I Love Being Black Part 4
Continuing with the series on 30 Reasons I love being black. Here are reasons 11-13: 11. Soul Train Line. The Afros. The bell bottoms. The chance to show off the latest dance moves. . Whether it was...
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Repost: Black Theology for Black History Month Pt 1
Black Theology?!?!? Yes. Theology is not God. Theology is people speaking about God. This means that it can be formed and shaped by a variety of perspectives. One perspective that most do not know...
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Repost: Black Theology for Black History Month Pt 2
Another source for black theology is the faith tradition of African Americans. From this source, it is the Womanist Christ of Kelly Brown Douglas that makes a unique and necessary contribution to black...
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Repost: Black Theology for Black History Month Pt 4
Our fourth and final source for black theology is the social and analytical tools needed for prophetic thought and practice. In other words, the tools that enable us to see the situations of oppression...
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Repost: Black Theology for Black History Month Pt 5
In conclusion, Black Theology shapes Christian ministry by showing the true distinction between “Daddy Rich” and the “Revolutionary” and compels us to choose the latter by focusing our ministry towards...
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The 1st Diversity: Reading for Women’s History Month
God loves diversity. From the very beginning of the Hebrew scriptures we can see diversity in action. According to the Biblical text, creation begins with difference: light and darkness, water and dry...
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The Bible Series and Our Racial Perceptions
I wasn’t going to say anything but Ok…I’ll take this one for the team. The History Channel’s Bible mini series has helped to bring “The greatest story ever told” to a new generation and has certainly...
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5 reasons it’s easier to celebrate St. Patrick’s day than Black History Monthh
This past weekend I saw scores of people of all different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds dressed in green. They were eating corn beef and cabbage. Drinking Guinness by the gallon and singing...
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Can I say that I don’t like Christian Radio???
I don’t like Christian radio. Can I say that? This is a dilemma that has vexed me since I began to follow Jesus back in 1997. The bubble gum songs with lysol clean production and sappy lyrics. The...
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When you are the only “you” in the room
Today I was at an industry conference. Editors talking about editing. Writers talking about writing. Designers talking about designing. Publishers talking about publishing. In that sense I was in good...
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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