Okay, I’m sitting in class checking my email and I go on Yahoo of course, and we all know my deconstructionist approach to the biblical text, so of course this following story leapt out at me. Don’t expect to hear these Bible stories at church. Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls children — this is […]
Read more "Should The Bible Be Taken Literally?"I’m making the general assumption that some of my older readers aren’t aware of this television show on MTV called “Sex With Mom and Dad.” I don’t know if any other bloggers have attacked the show from this angle, so if they have, I apologize for the upcoming redundancy….oh well. But, usually when I watch […]
Read more "MTV Only sees Premarital ‘Sex’ as a Problem With Young Girls"I treated myself on Friday night to go see Bill Maher’s new movie “Religulous.” I joked, half serious that I was renouncing Christianity and assuming a belief system based on love. As far as I’m concerned Maher did a pretty accurate depiction of everyday, borderline evangelical Christianity in this country. The opening venue is a […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: ‘Religulous’ Movie Review"After my internship this summer, I’m quite under the realisation that God is much bigger than how our own contexts usually confine God. God is equally in the 10:30 am coffee break between the 9:30 am and 11am service as God is in the shout or the contemporary version of the ring shout. I’ve struggled […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Who Defines Christianity?"Has the church lost it’s mind or am I just going crazy. It was reported today in the AJC that Gospel Today, a magazine was pulled from the shelves today. Well, I saw it on the news and I was trying to figure out why. “Smiling women on the cover of a slick magazine. Sold […]
Read more "Has the Church Lost It’s Mind: Bishop Thomas Weeks’ Reality Show; Gospel Today Removed from bookstore stands"I wrote back in April or something about “In Defense of the Black Church: America’s Chicken’s Are Coming Home to Roost” borrowing from the phrase made even more popular from Jeremiah Wright’s rousing sermon following the 9/11 attacks on the previous Tuesday. As I watched CNN do the story digging into Sarah “I’m still picking which […]
Read more "In Defense of The Church: The Need for a Public Theologian"I’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles. Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first. I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed […]
Read more "Put Your Hat Back On!"Wow! I really didn’t expect to wake up at 10:30am to my friend calling me telling me that Jeremiah Wright had yet again found himself in a live news media frenzy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. But, I’m going to keep this short, it’s finals week and per my cousin, I discovered […]
Read more "In Defense of the Black Church: America’s chickens are coming home to roost"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 […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 