Pretty self-explanatory; these are the issues that deal with modern and popular culture that have nothing to really do with religion or the church
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’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!"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"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…"Fellow clergypersons, So it just hit me randomly this year that we, as self-professed American Christians really do worship the religion of Americanity rather than being true Followers of the Way. That is to say, we’ll follow what American capitalism says, dress it up in Christianity and the Bible and be okay with that. Here’s […]
Read more "Spiritualizing the Secular: An Open Letter to the Clergy of America"I had a commenter tell me that she had noticed marked disillusionment in the tenor of my posts and I didn’t really respond, but if you’re reading this, you’re more than correct. It’s hard being 25 years old and being an African American male who has a wider world view and broader understanding of, hmmm, […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 