Continued from the previous post because I figure y’all wouldn’t be reading a 3,000+ word post. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina, Terry Schivo In March 2005, we all remember the Terry Schivo case where the entire country joined a pro-life debate, not about unborn fetuses, but rather about a Florida woman who had entered a vegetative […]
Read more "Top Moves of the Decade (Part II, 2005-2009)"So, now as we have entered a new decade, or at least a new 10 year period, let us look back at the top ten moments that have had an impact on our lives. Or have they? Honestly, we live in a 24-hour news cycle and we’re much more apt to talk about Tiger Woods […]
Read more "Top Moves of the Decade (Part I, 2000-2004)"With God’s help I will build and maintain our own community and make my brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and solve them together. With the third night of Kwanzaa, Ujima which means collective work and responsibility, represented by the first green candle (green for the land), again, I have moved into the realm of […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflection IV: Ujima-Collective Work and Responsibility"For quite sometime my mother has had the title of this post on the message blackboard in the kitchen. And that saying resonated with me as I saw this Nightline special that aired last week. Here check it out. In case ABC comes and pulls the above clip, in short, Nightline decided to talk about […]
Read more "Black Men Are Good Enough"With God’s help I will participate in the defining of ourselves, naming of ourselves and speaking for ourselves instead of being defined and spoken for by others. Personally, I hold Kujichagulia, self-determination and the first red candle (red representing the blood shed of our ancestors) to the right, in high personal regards. For me this is […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflections III: Kujichagulia-Self Determination"Umoja (unity) — With God’s help, I will strive for and maintain unity in the family community, nation and race. Umoja is the first principle of Kwanzaa,and represented by the black candle (black for the people) and attempts to address the impossible. Generally, when we think of unity, or that which is united, we, as modern-day Black […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflections II: Umoja-Unity"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"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 […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 