Photo Credit: Telegraph.Co.Uk I have an uneasy feeling when it comes to Christian Missionaries. I know that sounds strange coming from a pastor. But anyone who reviews the history of missionaries from the Western, American context will find a deluge of disheartening examples connecting Christian Mission with subjugation, oppression, and the dehumanizing of Indigenous...
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Many of you have been following the situation going on in Haiti – no, not the earthquake and recovery, but the arrest and pending trial of 10 U.S. Christian Missionaries who are under judicial scrutiny right now for the alleged kidnap attempt of dozens of Haitian children. This story disturbs me on many fronts,...
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Last night I was on a very impressive international conference call with more than 700 others to talk about how everyday people can stand in solidarity with our Haitian sisters and brothers. The call was hosted by the Hip Hop Caucus and moderated by its CEO, Rev. Lennox Yearwood. The call featured a number...
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Photo Credit: Gnews.com Like many of you, my heart has been heavy for the people of Haiti this week as they have endured a tremendous earthquake and successive aftershocks. A country that was already struggling and surviving in the midst of extreme poverty; is now trying to dig out from significant infrastructural collapse and...
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for their upcoming edition entitled “Separate Lives: Why Baltimoreans Don’t Mix, and What We Can Do About It.” They are partnering with Open Society Institute (OSI) on this being as though OSI has spent about half this year rolling out their Talking About Race Series. I was only allowed to submit 300 words max...
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Photo Credit: The New Liberator.Com Representative Donna Edwards (D-MD) was the only Maryland Congressional Representative to vote against the AIPAC-produced House Resolution (H.Res 867) which called on the “President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the...
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Stay With Me! Friday, June 5, 2009 | It’s Free, but you must register now! Join Dr. Tony Campolo, Beyond Borders, and Calvary Baptist Church for an Evening of Hope for Haiti’s “Stay-With” Slave Children. Program: 6:00 p.m. Simple Supper 7:00 p.m. Main Program followed by a Dessert Reception Just a ninety-minute flight from...
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Photo Credit: KPFK.Org Today we honor the memory and legacy of Brother El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz; Brother Malcolm X. He is a Great Ancestor who continues to speak as clearly today as he did when he walked the earth to those who have ears to hear him. In visiting my alma mater for a number...
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PHOTO CREDIT: HuffingtonPost.Com While I admittedly expressed tepid support for the campaign of presidential-candidate, Senator Barack Obama, that cautious engagement was not because of my disdain for him as an individual. I think that he is a brilliant mind and man who took the cards that were dealt him and made the best out...
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Within the last week, I have had at least 25 (or more) people ask me if I am going to “The Inauguration.” Several of my relatives asked me if I was going. I asked, “What for?” They looked at me, then they looked at each other, then they looked back at me with this...
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