Psst! I'm going to let you in on a little secret about me, okay? Not that you want or need to know, but, here it is anyway. I don't like surprises. In fact, I loathe them. If you wanna get on my nerves, surprise me with something. Anything. It doesn't matter what it...

In 1975, the band Earth, Wind, & Fire released an album entitled That's the Way of the World. Thirty years later, in 2005, Rolling Stone magazine listed the title song, "Way of the World", as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time at number 337. Hauntingly...

Image credit: appsdirectories.com “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Luke 6:46 (NASB) The website religionnews.com recently reported the results of a 2014 Pew Religious Landscape study of where various religious denominations stood on the...

Image credit: billboard.com I was raised in the "Black Power" era of the 1970s. In many ways, the environment that composed the decade that was the '70s was much like it is today. It was a period of great social and political uncertainty, when the "Soul Music" of...

Image credit: tithing.com Among the numerous movies in my personal collection of DVDs are several that are based on biblical themes. One of my favorites is the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told starring Max von Sydow in the role of Jesus Christ. There are several...

Vivian Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in 'Gone With The Wind' Image credit: businessinsider.com Racism. It seems the incessant noise about race relations in America is becoming more deafening with each passing day. The topic has become so ubiquitous it's as if the very...

Students at Harlem Success Academy, a free, public elementary charter school in New York. Image credit: democraticunderground.com An article published recently by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) reported the results of a poll conducted by the...

Image credit: haaretz.com All politicians are sinners. [Insert "Thank you, Captain Obvious!" retort here.] We know this, of course, because we are all fallen human beings and, by nature, all fallen human beings are sinners (Romans 3:23). Nevertheless, there is a...

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being...

A recent Washington Post article reported the results of a new poll conducted by Suffolk University and USA Today, showing Democrat presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton generating only 31 percent support among black voters. I say "only"...