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, […]
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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 […]
For Colored Persons Who Have Considered Suicide When Being “Black In America” Is Enough: An Uppity Negro Response to CNN’s Black In America III
I know that’s a long title and certainly hyperbolic, but I think it addresses the gutted and eviscerated feeling that I experienced watching CNN’s Soledad O’Brien “Almighty Debt” a Black […]
“Don’t Talk About My Mama!” and Other Problems With Black Intellectual Rhetoric
We’ve all had that moment when we realize that a conversation somehow strayed down a rabbit-hole and turned into a debate, and that debate got intense and turned into an […]
And The Walls Come Tumba’ling Down: The Religious Politics of Eddie Long
Hot off the press from tonight, the latest in news to affect the institutional Black Church, both old and new, has been the lawsuit against Bishop Eddie Long of the […]
“Help! I’m Hearing Voices!”: The Schizophrenia of The Church
I remember as a kid, interested in music, gospel music at that, that it was normal that I would turn on the radio on Sunday and listen to the music. […]
The Four Ways Black Folk Listen to a Sermon
The following is a piece entitled “Two Ships Passing in the Night” by Rev. Cleophus LaRue, Ph.D. in the book What’s the Matter with Preaching Today? edited by Mike Graves. […]
Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Eddie Glaude’s “The Black Church Is Dead?”
This is a piece forwarded to me by one of my readers and Twitter followers @tsboddy on a piece that Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Ph.D. wrote for the Huffington Post […]
