I THOUGHT I Heard the Sound of the Abundance of Rain: The Jason Collins Story

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. \ 1 Kings 18:41, King James Version Recently, the United States had the first male player of a professional sports group publicly come out as gay. His name is Jason Collins–and he’s black! Given the […]

It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong

Let me put a clear disclaimer before I launch into the deep with this blog post: The institutional Black Church as we know it, something that is a proper noun, has entered it’s final stages of life. The metonymical phrase “the Black Church” is rather black churches that have a different socio-economic and political outlook […]

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I THOUGHT I Heard the Sound of the Abundance of Rain: The Jason Collins Story

It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong