Me and my friend used to joke that they should a have a musician’s form of BET’s “Sunday’s Best” where they get everyone together and have bands from churches compete for the best shout run. I mean, type in “church shout” or “praise break” on YouTube and you’d hear stuff that’ll blow your mind. And […]
Read more "This Is Why Folks Don’t Take Church Seriously"This was from the final Late Night Service from Morehouse School of Religion here at my school. Yup, that’s me again on the organ. And what ensues is what’s known as a “praise break” before we go right into the song that we were supposed to have been singing. My computer shuts off, but about […]
Read more "I’m On YouTube Again"I’ve always talked about it, and I finally got around to posting something. But that’s me on the organ and some of my other friends toward the end of rehearsal. We have a group on campus known as the Ecumenical Voices of Praise and we sing for the random services on campus week to week. […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro In Church…"I remember watching George Bush walk out of St. John’s Church on January 20, 2001 on the slightly rainy inauguration day that year, and I remember at 16 wondering what it would be like to see a black man as a president having to attend a white church service. I imagined that he’d be going […]
Read more "The Obamas’ Search For a Spiritual Home"The black community, maybe more than any other, is affective linked to churches and their pastors to the degree that criticism of either (no matter how rational) is often viewed as nothing short of an attack on God…Unfortunately, black ministers (be they emancipators or collaborators in oppression) are often protected from secular intellectual confrontation by […]
Read more "Random Uppity Negro Quote of the Day"Okay, one down–one more to go. I was on the Academy Award’s list of nominees and I saw another movie I had seen last summer was up for nomination and I was like “Aw nuts! I have to do a third review” and then I realised I just don’t feel like it. But all […]
Read more "UNN Movie Review: Changeling"First of all, if this is the best writing sample that has been produced by The Maroon Tiger, then I feel as though I’ve missed my calling as a journalist because I think I write better than that. The article in question can be found by clicking on this link and refers to the UNN […]
Read more "Response to “When Does Gay Tolerance Go Too Far?”"Okay, I stole that from this girl that goes to school here with me; it had been her Facebook status message momentarily, but when I read this article here, I realised that the metaphorical Judas’ really do exist. Here’s a short snippet from the AP/Yahoo News Service A group of black ministers who supported U.S. […]
Read more "When Judas Is Closer Than Jesus"Updates to come… But let the record show that Rick Warren did a complete and total and utter disservice to the legacy that was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. He should have let it slide with the inaugural invocation tomorrow morning, but this fool got up in front of a black congregation and quoted […]
Read more "Rick Warren and the mess that was the Keynote Address at Ebenezer Baptist Church"I mentioned it earlier this month in a blog, but I didn’t devote a whole blog to it, but, um, yeah, I really don’t have words to describe my ultimate disgust with the King Center’s choice to pick Rick Warren as the MLK day speaker. Perhaps I’ll buy the claim that theologically Rick Warren […]
Read more "I Have No Words…For the King Committee Picking Rick Warren for MLK Day Speaker"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 