The following is a piece entitled “Two Ships Passing in the Night” by Rev. Cleophus LaRue, Ph.D. in the book What’s the Matter with Preaching Today? edited by Mike Graves. LaRue does a piece to address the differences between what is considered black preaching styles and non-black preaching styles. Essentially saying that both sides have […]
Read more "The Four Ways Black Folk Listen to a Sermon"I think I’m going to start a new series, not that I’ve been super successful with my others, but alas, here goes. I know it’s pretty doom and gloom to write about the “lack thereof” particularly in the black communities of this country, or even various other cultural observances, but I do believe that if […]
Read more "The Lack Thereof… Intellectual Black Religious Communities"My friend over at The Critical Cleric had long since said that the black political blogosphere did nothing for him. He went on to elaborate that many writers, he felt, didn’t give enough critical analysis of their own opinions and thoughts and generally just went off the cuff and went forward. At the time, about […]
Read more "Reclaiming The Black Blogosphere: We Must Do Better"When dealing with the hip-hop generation and most certainly what M.K. Asante, Jr. refers to as the emergence of the post-hip hop generation, one must understand that much of the state of affairs within the inner cities is a result of a systemic governmental policies on the federal, state and local levels. At issue is […]
Read more "Hip Hop and the State of the Black Church, pt. 1"The following is a response piece from a forwarded article to me by one of my readers and Twitter followers @tsboddy on a piece that Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Ph.D. wrote for the Huffington Post entitled “The Black Church is Dead.” Clearly this is up my alley and I’ve finally gotten around to responding to […]
Read more "An Uppity Negro Response to Eddie Glaude’s “The Black Church is Dead”"This is a piece forwarded to me by one of my readers and Twitter followers @tsboddy on a piece that Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Ph.D. wrote for the Huffington Post entitled “The Black Church is Dead.” Clearly this is up my alley and I plan to have a response to this later on this week. […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Eddie Glaude’s “The Black Church Is Dead?”"Dear Tavis and Al Sharpton, I am writing this open letter to you two because I am confused. The way I heard it, you, Brother Tavis, called out Rev. Al on the Tom Joyner Morning Show earlier this week and criticized him for not being open about what was said when President Obama met with […]
Read more "An Open Letter To Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton"In the words and tonality of President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address let me be perfectly clear that I hate elitism in the black community with a burning passion. It has done nothing but separate us economically and rendered us even further divided on class boundaries. That being said, I’m over […]
Read more "The Failure of Black Elitism: An Armchair Case Study of Morehouse College"I just came from spending the better part of my afternoon with my friend, The Critical Cleric after I dropped off my application to Emory’s Candler School of Theology and somehow as we were sitting at Landmark Jr. cafe, and we were discussing this one young lady who went to our school (now his alma […]
Read more "North Versus South: Social Awareness Versus Black Elitism"Last week my friend asked me to lead the discussion for the “Next Gathering” a group of budding theologians who meet for a couple of hours once a month to discuss theology in a slightly more formal setting than just over hot wings and drinks. My colleague asked me to give the preacher’s response to […]
Read more "The Preacher’s Response to the Haitian Earthquake; Pat Robertson’s comments"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 