Superman and the Need for an American Savior
Maybe I’m more churchy than I thought, but the christological references in the blockbuster “Man of Steel” was so overwhelming is pushed the movie from epic to cheesy. This was […]
Category Archives: Religion
An Original Uppity Negro: Rev. Vernon Johns
Taylor Branch lifted the Rev. Vernon Johns out of historical obscurity when he published his famous tome on the modern Civil Rights era Parting the Waters: America in the King Years […]
I THOUGHT I Heard the Sound of the Abundance of Rain: The Jason Collins Story
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. \ 1 Kings 18:41, King James Version Recently, the United […]
The Miscoloring of “The Bible” and How the History Channel Got it Wrong
I ended up watching the History Channel’s miniseries “The Bible” more out of the duty of being a cultural critic than I did out of some deep desire to really […]
My Challenge to Black Parents and the Continued Pornography of Violence
Over the past two days, two videos featuring black parents videotaping their forms of discipline have made their way onto my Facebook timeline. Please watch both of them in their […]
We’re Going to Hell with the ‘Best Funeral Ever’ Along with ‘The Sisterhood’
I’m really not one for reality television series. I am quite convinced they are the birth of the child of unrepentant banality that has devolved from American culture and the […]
How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. That quote from Martin Luther King at the steps of the Alabama state […]
It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong
Let me put a clear disclaimer before I launch into the deep with this blog post: The institutional Black Church as we know it, something that is a proper noun, […]
The Troubling Theology of Rick Santorum
All Hail the Great Theocrat, Rick Santorum the First! I guess that’s what the conservative right wing party is saying in certain corners. I guess I’m taking my cue from […]
The Black Church, Homegoing Services and Whitney Houston
On February 18, 2012, the family of Whitney Houston paid their final respects in an invite only, yet televised homegoing service at her home church, New Hope Baptist Church in […]
