Editor’s note: I had long since promised to do a blog per day for Kwanzaa to highlight each of the seven principals of the African American cultural holiday, perhaps this year I’ll at least get some of them done. And actually, if I were to post a new blog for seven days straight, that would […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflections I: Getting Ready For Kwanzaa"Hopefully you’re Christmas is going better than mine. My laptop is in the shop and you know that’s my first love, I’m broke, Chicago is in the middle of an ice storm and soon to be snowstorm and who knows what the family is going to be on tomorrow when and if they show up. […]
Read more "Happy Christmas"So, I’ve been gone for a good lonnnnnnnng time. Since my last post I’ve moved a mere 14 credits away from receiving my dual masters degrees on May 8th of the upcoming year and I’ve travelled back home for the Christmas holidays. But, in the midst of all of that a few other noteworthy news […]
Read more "UNN News Briefs — Sounding Off!"I know I haven’t posted since before Thanksgiving, but combined with the work load increase, finals week, trying to do get my school list finalized for post-graduate (yet still graduate) studies and above all, not having internet in my residential complex, blogging is at the bottom of my things to do list. So, I’ll holla […]
Read more "It’s Finals Week…"So I learned a hard lesson when I preached in front of my peers the other week: Not everyone can handle what you say across from the pulpit. From being accused of plagiarism (yes, again) to being accused of not remaining biblically accurate, I got the whole gamut of concerns surrounding my sermon. In a […]
Read more "Prophetic Tradition Versus Priestly Tradition"I actually got a tweet about this mess when it happened. Two weeks ago while the historically black Pentecostal denomination of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) held their annual 102nd Holy Convocation in Memphis, Tennessee, apparently Donnie McClurkin, the gospel recording artist and ordained elder in the COGIC church took the microphone on […]
Read more "Hurt People, Hurt People: The Homophobic Prophesying Rant of Donnie McClurkin"There are only two movies in my lifetime that I ever cried on–or rather allowed myself to cry on. The reuniting scene of Celie and Nettie in “The Color Purple” was the first one at age ten when I snuck and finished watching the movie and was careful to keep my back turned so my […]
Read more "Oh How ‘Precious’"As I was writing the first post, I thought about the fact that there really is a segment of Christianity in this country that truly feels that politics and religion don’t mix. That is to say, that all they need to do is preach Jesus, and him crucified, dead, buried and resurrected and all will […]
Read more "Which Comes First: Religion or Citizenship, Pt. II"This is for those who don’t seem to get it: CHRISTOPHER MAURICE BROWN, AKA CHRIS BROWN WAS WRONG AND SHOULD NOT HAVE HIT ROBYN RIHANNA FENTY, AKA RIHANNA. NO EXCUSES, NO EXPLANATIONS! That being said, here goes. As our respective Twitter followers discovered last Friday night, me and Thembi of What Would Thembi Do? got […]
Read more "An Uppity Perspective: The 20/20 Rihanna Interview And Why Some Black Women Need To…"It’s kind of like the Civil War where brothers fought across the Mason-Dixon line. I don’t want to stain my faith. I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims and I don’t want to stain my country’s flag.” — Ardi Arkun, 32, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who joined the Marines in 2000 and was deployed to […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 