No, I’m not COGIC for all those who recognise that as part of the COGIC theme song, but I realized that I just was a part of something that Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reily, Lou Dobbs, Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown and many others of the white church will understand. A graduation from an historically black college or […]
Read more "You Can’t Join It, You Got to be born in it!"At first I don’t know why this thought popped into my head, but as I sat down, with my church clothes on waiting for my calzone last night, I realized why. Granted I’ve put on about 25lbs from when I first bought the gray slacks from Express in fall of 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, but […]
Read more "I Can’t Fit Gap Underwear!!!"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"Just wanted to share with you all what one my school’s about to be alumni Kippie Brown preached tonight for our school’s last Ecumenical Late-Night service. Coming from Mark 5 and the Gerasene demoniac named Legion. In a nutshell, he simply said that it’s hard sometimes to not make the tomb our tabernacle because it […]
Read more "Don’t Make Your Tomb Your Tabernacle"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 […]
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Read more "Things I Neglected to Comment On…"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"Isn’t it interesting that just as Obama’s pastor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. celebrated 36 of ministry at Trinity United Church of Christ, and retiring as senior pastor from that pulpit that the new firestorm concerning his pastor is being trotted out again in front of the media as though this is something new. […]
Read more "Obama’s Pastor Uncovers a Hidden Reality of a Second America"Dear Sen. Clinton, I am quite concerned after your victories last night and your decision to stay in the Democratic Primary race that you, yes you, are threatening to seriously divide the Democratic Party as we know it. Why do I say that? It’s simply because of your need and desire to be the frontrunner […]
Read more "An Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton"In this day and age where black megachurches are having “hip-hop” services and churches are reaching out to the “hip-hop” generation and I hear talk about trying to reach the “hip-hop” generation, I get really confused. I get confused because this particular uppity Negro isn’t a big music listener (go figure as I’m a musician) […]
Read more "So…what generation am I?"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 