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
Kierra Sheard, the newest judge on BET’s “Sunday Best” which debuted last night famously quipped “Where is the oil?” I ask that question to two of the judges: Donnie McClurkin and Kim Burrell. Now let me help out of some of my non-Pentecostal friends and give some context to the question “Where is the oil?” […]
Read more "“Sunday Best” Fails to Show the ‘Best’ In the Judges"This past Memorial Day weekend, I took a week vacation from work and took the Amtrak to Los Angeles (please believe I took a plane back to New Orleans), and per my normal habit when traveling, I had made plans to rent a car. But since I wasn’t renting a car from an airport, that […]
Read more "But Can I Get a Taxi?"For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 1 Corinthians 1:21, KJV If one does a quick search of the name Jamal Bryant on my blog, they will quickly discover that from my seminary forward […]
Read more "Jamal Bryant and the Continued Foolishness of Preaching"I will admit that I am currently wrestling with how I personally feel about certain topics when it comes to gender discussions. Not only is it a personal battle, but it’s one of academic and intellectual travail as well; just exactly where do I fit on the spectrum. Within the last decade or so, between […]
Read more "The Fallacy of Argumentum ad Feminarum Negrum: To the Black Woman"An Uppity Negro Response to Brittney Cooper and why comparative gender suffering is a zero-sum gain for all.
Read more "The Comparative Suffering of “Black Girls’ Zero-Sum Struggle” and “My Brother’s Keeper”"I ran into an old professor who I love and respect, and me and her have discussed the level of engagement of students over the years and how it seems as though things have definitely shifted. Whereas in the past students had a different level of respect for their professors and also they had higher […]
Read more "A Black Man is Good Enough"Let me first give a disclaimer: I’m not a reverse racist, I have white friends [you see how that sounds]. Now that the formalities are out of the way, I have to be honest, I don’t do it this much, but I am poaching the idea of this blog from an article on the Root “White […]
Read more "The Redemption of White Men"In full disclosure, I’m only one generation removed from cotton fields and inner city public housing. My dad grew up in a house, but he, his brother and older sisters and parents worked out in cotton fields to make a living as well as his father doing odds and ends jobs around in the small […]
Read more "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate for the Ghetto"Dear White People Concept Trailer from Justin Simien on Vimeo. In the vein of “Higher Learning” and “School Daze” there is a spoof video that is premiering at 2014 Sundance called “Dear White People” highlighting the interactions of black faces in the white space of ivy league-esque collegiate education. I watched the trailer, and of […]
Read more "Dear Black People…"It was the summer of 1993, and the typical warmth of the midwest sun had found its way to Chicago. About four blocks from my house, an easy walking distance was, and still is, the headquarters for Operation PUSH and Jesse Jackson, Sr.’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition. I remember my mother dragging me down to the […]
Read more "Mandela and A Millennial Generation’s Connection to the Civil Rights Movement"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 