Ask most people about the “civil rights” movement and you’re likely to eventually hear the names of men woven into their response. Without proper perspective, one could grow up in this country believing that the fight for “civil rights” was led, organized, and executed solely by men. Deeper study, however, will reveal that in...
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Tags: Barbara Ransby, Black Freedom, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, Jr., NAACP, SCLC, Self-determination, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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I remember it like it was yesterday. It wasn’t too long ago, but the emotional roller coaster was so terrifying that I’ll not soon forget the experience. I was in my first year of pastoring sitting at a Christian convention meeting at a West Baltimore church. The meeting portion of the mid-day program had...
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Tags: Bible Study, Christian Death, Intervarsity Press, Pastoral Care, Rob Moll, The Art of Dying
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I watched this CNN interview and exchange last night between Tom Horne, Arizone Superintendent of Public Instruction and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, professor and social critic. The issue was Arizona’s new ban on ethnic studies. Apparently, Arizona’s public school system was worried about non-white children being taught their history. According to Mr. Horne, as...
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Tags: Arizona Ethnic Studies, Arizona Immigration, Chicano, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Posted in Beloved Community, Clergy, Culture, Free Your Mind, My Story, Politics, Social Justice, What I'm reading, White folks, baltimore, baltimore politics, civil rights | 13 Comments »
Recently, I finished reading The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah. Rah, a fellow Baltimorean by way of Korea, provides a truly thoughtful and passionate critique of the current landscape of American Christianity. The foundation of the book’s argument is not rooted in theology, but actually finds it...
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Tags: Emergent, Emerging Church, Intervarsity Press, Ooze TV, Shaine Claiborne, Soong-Chan Rah, Spencer Burke, Village
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One of my new gigs this year is that I’m a book reviewer for InterVarsity Press. Thanks to this blog, someone from the publishing company contacted me and wondered if I would be interested in reading and writing reviews of their publications. Of course, I jumped at the opportunity. I LOVE books! I understand...
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Tags: Books, ebook reader, Intervarsity Press
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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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Tags: Black Power, Courthouse, God of the Oppressed, Greensboro, james cone, Jonah, Miguel De La Torre, North Carolina, Racial Reconciliation, Sherrilyn Ifill, South Africa, Tim Wise, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, White Power Structure, White Privilege
Posted in Africans in America, Beloved Community, Culture, Freedom!, Maryland, Social Justice, State of Black America, What I'm reading, White folks, activist, africa, baltimore, baltimore politics, civil rights, liberation theology | 5 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, one of the books I’m reading these days is entitled Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of our Daily Choices by Julie Clawson. It’s a book that has sensitized me to how some of my lifestyle choices – as innocent as they seem – have an adverse impact...
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Tags: African American community, Clark Atlanta, copenhagen, Environmental Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental racism, EPA, landfill, paper plates, plastic forks, pollution, United Nations, washing dishes, waste
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One of the books I’m reading right now is entitled Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of our Daily Choices by Julie Clawson. I’m just a couple chapters in so far, but I already appreciate how Julie brings home the issue of justice and reveals how we vote every day to either support justice or...
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Tags: Black Friday, Child Labor, Corpwatch, Everyday Justice, Firestone, Intervarsity Press, Jesus, Julie Clawson, Prophets, Shopping, Social Justice, U.S. Department of Labor, Walmart
Posted in Beloved Community, Christian, Culture, Faith &/or Religion, Hip Hop, International Focus, Jesus, Politics, Poverty, Social Justice, What I'm reading, activist | No Comments »
Two weeks ago for our church’s Bible Study which we call Transformation Tuesdays, I began a class centered around a movement called Advent Conspiracy. The effort in a nutshell is to encourage Believers during the Season of Advent to Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, and Love All. It’s a message that really resonated...
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Tags: Advent Conspiracy, Advent Season, American consumerism, Basil of Caesarea, Black Friday, Christmas, Eugene Cho, One Day's Wages, Thanksgiving
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The more I read about the Emerging Church, the more I find that I identify with many of its distinct pillars. While I’m cautious about labeling myself as a member of the Emerging Church (I have a thing with labels…I get claustrophobic); I certainly embrace and enthusiastically so – its emphasis on decentralized servant...
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Tags: Beatitudes Society, Christian, Emerging Church, Ooze TV, Shane Claiborne, Spencer Burke, White Christians
Posted in Beloved Community, Christian, Culture, Faith &/or Religion, Kingdom of God, What I'm reading, White folks, liberation theology | 12 Comments »