What do we do when people are determined to continue banging their heads against the wall? Like, imagine walking up to someone who is repeatedly head-butting concrete… If you didn’t find him completely strange and…
We don’t talk about castration enough… But castration is a big part of the Black American identity. It’s why Rev. Jesse Jackson fantasized about cutting off Obama’s nuts. (His words…not mine… #NeverForget) Don’t believe me?…
Why do we tend to take the opinions of non-theologians – over that of theologians, on matters of faith? Recently, there’s been much discussion about the swipes that Barack Obama took at Jeremiah Wright in…
What do we do about heresy? Heresy?!?!? Who talks about heresy… Two lines in, I’m sure many have already stopped reading. Heresy is such a bad word… We don’t talk about it. So we damn…
The experience of Black people in America is exhibit A in the case of white society’s wickedness… We are often afraid to say that. We are more likely to feign being “happy darkies,” thankful for…
The Black Church got on board with ushering the Black Vote to elect Joe Biden. All over traditional and social media the refrain is that Black voters saved America. But, the deeper truth of that…
It’s like we – Black poeple – are stranded in the wilderness and don’t know it… It’s like we are stranded in the wilderness and have reconciled ourselves to that position… Has the Black Church…
It’s a long way to go when you don’t know where you’re going…You don’t know where you’re going when you’re lost. That’s what the late great Guru of Gang Starr said on Hard to Earn…
We could recreate the Garden of Eden from whence we were out-cast… We could indeed become the Beloved Community and forge A More Perfect Union, on earth as it is in Heaven… There really could…
The people were in exile in the wilderness. They had been in bondage for over 400 years, but now they were free. They hadn’t yet arrived at the Promised Land, but at least they were…