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Living The Gospel Is Hardest When We Are Right
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...
Racism, Inc. (or Why Some Who Call For An End To Racism Don’t Really Want It)
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...
Poll Confirms What Many Already Know: Black Americans Support Charter Schools (But The News Isn’t All Good)
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...
The Person You Intend To Vote For In 2016 Did Not Die For You (Remember That)
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...
“I’ll (Only) Pray For You”: On Christian Hypocrisy and the Poor
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...
How Should the Black Church Respond to Hillary Clinton?
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"...
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...