Well, where I’m staying at this summer, somehow has fried my wireless connection with their particular router–go figure, so I’m relegated to staying late at my job and using the company’s computer. Hmmmm…wonder what they would say if they decided to do a History check and see name’s like “uppity negro” “averagebro” “black snob” and […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"Well, this is most definitely a story I am troubled to pass on to my readers. I don’t think MSM has gotten hold of it, and clearly the Obama-Clinton surprise meeting here in Washington trumped this story. And seeing as how the Fr. Pfleger removal (or suspension) story didn’t break big news nationally, […]
Read more "Say It Aint So Rev…."THIS is a blog I’d rather not feel moved to write. I’ve already set a task before me of a list of blogs that I was supposed to be writing exploring some of the issues surrounding the recent Democratic campaign events. Pushing those issues further make making them less and less relevant. BUT, the fact that […]
Read more "Saving Face over Faith; Pfleger removed from his pastorate"I don’t know if it’s just me, or are other black church folk, especially preachers and musicians just on the edge of their seat when they hear Obama give a speech. Especially when we see him use such masterful use of parallel structure and especially when we hear his close: America, this is our moment. […]
Read more "The Black Preacher in me…"Wow! I really didn’t expect to wake up at 10:30am to my friend calling me telling me that Jeremiah Wright had yet again found himself in a live news media frenzy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. But, I’m going to keep this short, it’s finals week and per my cousin, I discovered […]
Read more "In Defense of the Black Church: America’s chickens are coming home to roost"Let me respond to that question early on in this post with a resounding HELL NAH! Honestly, I thought he should have been quiet as far as the Bill Moyers interview was concerned, however I am quite pleased that he did. I think that in fact that this Jeremiah Wright spat has in fact taken […]
Read more "Should Jeremiah Wright be quiet?"I grew up hearing the phrase “speak truth to power” and its derivatives namely from the pulpit and from my mother. It was always used as a justification for preaching social justice sermons or putting forth a social justice message; usually in the face of a prosperity gospel preached (such as in the Word of […]
Read more "What Is ‘Speaking Truth to Power?’: Social Justice Gains Popularity"I think the title speaks for itself. I’m a budding homiletician and part time African American historian with a clear emphasis on the Black Church. I need some books, just to be able to put my hand on them when I need to, and also, to get up on some summer reading in my particular […]
Read more "Books I’d like to buy, but have no money"Thankfully, I went to a church that NEVER begged for money. I never heard sermons out of Malachi about tithing, and I used to cringe when I’d end up visiting a church that the pastor felt the need to preach on it. It always made me uncomfortable–gave me the willies. But be that as it […]
Read more "My Sunday Morning Revelation, Pt. II: Why I May Stop Tithing"I’ve had it up to here! While there are substantive ministries that exist in our cities today, just how much is tradition going to mire us in the prototypical Civil Rights Era of the Black Church. The fact that I watched a Nightline episode this past week about a Humanist society in Palo Alto, California […]
Read more "My Sunday Morning Revelation: The Irrelevancy of The Black Church"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 