Last Twelve Entries
This book looks interesting...
"Liberating Black Theology" book promo from Joseph D. Martinez on ...
Forsaking the status quo (aka, the old life)Malcolm had a radical conversion experience while in prison. His conversion certainly involved turning from an immoral path to a moral one; however, I would make the case that more fundamental aspect of this experience was the distillation of identity.For Malcolm being a Muslim was who he became. It was not a mere ...
In lieu of the enormous and devastating earthquake in Haiti, Evangelical Pat Robertson stated that the earthquake was a result of the Haitians making a pact with the Devil that they might be delivered from French occupation.Of course the French Colonialists were doing God's will expanding White European imperialism across the world as the waters cover the earth. If ...
The Other echoes filling full the hall,
Expanding, consuming, lifting beyond.
Melodious mixture in swollen drops fall;
Buoyant waters raising the moribund.Breathless beauty, singular, weighty, thick
Mingles with the shadows, dances on light.
Clarion harmony exudes to wick
Us from ourselves, an undivided rite.Upon the water’s wave in given flood,
In transubstantiated bond, that we
Infused, indistinguishable in Blood,
May resound Eucharistic melody.I started tying to code a website ...
One question we must ask is whether or not racism is merely behavioral. The teaching of Jesus sheds some light on the nature of behavior and its relationship to the whole of our persons. St. Matthew records:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For ...
Christians believe that not all that is present and even dominant in our world and culture was created or intended by the Creator. The Bible records that God created humanity as his image to proliferate his likeness and to do so in fellowship with him. Science has underscored that the genetic variation between one race and another is the same ...
On November 4, 1956 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached a most creative sermon bringing to bear the Apostle Paul's teaching on American nation and culture, calling America to "reach out" and "discover" God's grace, which stands in the "midst of man's tragic sin".This sermon is as relevant today as it was 52 years ago. Today, America inaugurates her first ...
Beverly Daniel Tatum engages in a conversation that myself and a good friend of mine, Russ Whitfield, have begun ourselves. Ethnically, I am Anglo-Saxon; my friend, who is bi-racial, is ethnically both Anglo-Saxon and African-American. Over the next weeks we'll be reading this book together, discussing it, and reflecting on it online here starting today, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, ...
15 as it is said:Today if you should hear[1] his voice,
Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion.[2]16 For who were those who heard and rebelled? Was it not everyone who came out from Egypt by means of Moses? 17 And with whom was he[3] angered for forty[4] years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the ...
44 ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν· ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς, 45 ὅπως γένησθε υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς - Love your enemies and pray on behalf of those who persecute you, that you might be sons of your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:44-45a, author's translation)The phrase "love your enemies" is certainly ...
The following is an email correspondence we received from a child advocacy group (http://suncanaa.com/). It is very disturbing and I hope will cut through the platicity of the Holiday Season such that you will consider how the Incarnation of God in Christ Jesus might apply to these children today in your own community. Adoption is especially a Christian motif and ...
12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For ...
