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When It Is More Important For Black Christians To Be Black Than Christian
"Remember, man, that you are dust and into dust you shall return." I came across an article the other day in which Dr. F. Keith Slaughter of the Morehouse College School of Religion suggests that the Black Church should welcome and embrace the message of liberation as...
Races Don’t Reconcile, Hearts Do
The matters of social justice and racial reconciliation continue to be topics of discussion among evangelical Christians regardless of ethnicity. Few discourses today have so intensely ignited people's emotions and passions as those that dare to broach these...
How Cultural Christianity Is Destroying the Black Church
This is the fourth in a series of commentaries I plan to write, Lord willing, on traditions and customs which, in my humble opinion, are doing damage to the missional purpose of what is commonly referred to as the “Black Church”. The objective of this series is not to...
“The Doors of the Church Are Open”: Part 3 of: 10 Things the Black Church Should Stop Doing
This is the third installment in a planned 10-part series of commentaries on traditions and customs which, in my opinion, are doing great harm to the missional purpose of what is commonly referred to as the “Black Church”. The objective of this series is not to...
Part 2: 10 Things The Black Church Should Stop Doing
This is the second installment in a planned 10-part series of commentaries on traditions and customs which, in my opinion, are doing great harm to the missional purpose of what is commonly referred to as the "Black Church". The objective of this series is not to...
An Inconvenient Truth: How the “Evolution” of T.D. Jakes Shines an Unflattering Light on (Some) Black Christians
Image credit: The Daily Beast "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? You...
10 Things the Black Church Should Stop Doing
This is the first in a series of 10 commentaries I plan to write, Lord willing, on traditions and customs which, in my humble opinion, are doing damage to the missional purpose of what is commonly referred to as the "Black Church". The objective of this series is not...
Cecil the Lion and Our Misguided Theology About Animals
"A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel." - Proverbs 12:10 Notwithstanding the fact that the beloved feline Cecil the Lion is now dead, and not discounting the circumstances or motives by which he met his...
Selective Moralistic Dualism: How We (Try To) Make God Do What We Want
"For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools." - Romans 1:21-22 It's interesting to observe how easily we...
Same-Sex Marriage and the Misguidedness of “Rainbow Theism”
A lot is being made today of rainbows. Everywhere you look, it seems people are either parading around waving rainbow flags or crossing the street between rainbow-colored crosswalks or riding around with rainbow-colored window decals on their automobiles. Even the...