Hank Aaron: Price of Excellence
When Hank Aaron—famed Negro League and Major League Icon and the slugginest man in baseball history—hit his 714th home run, he tied Babe...
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Know Yourself: Roommates
Roommates. Where to begin. We all have stories of delicate situations that turned to mayhem or rivalries that turned into friendships (or...
Method To Your Madness
Factually speaking, we are not all hard wired to be naturally organized. For some, a sock on the floor or a displaced book on the...
Kanye West Might Become A Banana*
There has been an overwhelming response from the masses (particularly white evangelicals) to Kanye West’s new album Jesus is King. I...
Keeping Steady While Black
As James Baldwin aptly stated; “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in rage almost all the time.” These...
Lifting the Heavy Yoke
This past weekend I had a wonderful conversation with a brother in Christ that has resonated with me so strongly that I haven’t been able...
Making Time for The Word
Recently, I have found myself in the all too familiar position of being busy. Too busy in fact. I don't know how it happens over time but...
Privileged AF
I'm privileged AF. I know; because I never have to think about the fact. I know; because privilege makes you blind to it. I know, because...
How Theology Helps My Devotional Life Part 2
Confidence The word “theology” used to scare me. I felt like it was a word that was reserved for the hyper spiritual. For the elite....
How Theology Helps My Devotional Life Part 1
Who Am I Talking To? “God who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last...
Divided: Breaking Down The Walls of Separation
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation” (Eph 2:14) Ephesians 2 is a...
Wakanda: A Longing For Home
I recently watched the movie Black Panther again and was struck again by so many different elements that I didn’t originally get the...
When It Hurts So Bad: Nipsey Hussle, A Parable
I was standing outside a seafood restaurant, we were celebrating my youngest brother’s birthday and my phone buzzed. I didn’t look...
God The Father and His Multi Ethnic/Diverse Family
"For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named" ...
God's Love is Essential Christianity
Keeping the Main Things in View When I first became a believer, the concept that stuck me the most was God’s unconditional love shown...
Following His Voice-Thoughts from John 10
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a...
Taking the Sting Out of "White Privilege"
If you google the term white privilege you get a wide array of articles and blogs that at first glance can seem very, very messy. As I...
Is Pro-Black Synonymous with Anti-White?
Quite possibly, yes. It is very possible that movements and individuals who esteem black Americans could definitely find themselves...
The Current Cloud of Blackface...Does it Matter and Should We Care?
It doesn’t take a genius to know that the current reaction to the word “blackface” is a small shudder at the very least and a sense of...
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