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To Be Young, Gifted, & Black: A Letter to a Young Black Leader — Part 1
We are viewed as problems to be solved rather than people to be admired.
Hardship-Birthed Hymns: What Can We Learn From the Negro Spiritual?
Christology runs through the veins of the Negro Spirituals.
Reflections on Suffering and the Sufficiency of Jesus’ Grace in 2018
When we suffer in 2019, remember God’s grace will be sufficient just as his resurrecting & transformative grace was sufficient for us in our suffering in 2018.
How to Talk to Your Kids about Race
“The worst conversation adults can have with kids about race is no conversation at all.”
Blessed and Highly Favored: Empty Slogan or Spiritual Reality?
Not one of God’s children will fail to see his goodness.
Keep Watch: Your Life & Doctrine Matter
Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Melanin Matters: POC On Mission
Currently, less than 1% of all foreign missionaries are African-American.
In the Middle: A View of African and Caribbean American Life
Caribbeans and African Americans believe lies about each other and if there is no one in your life to challenge those lies, you will accept them as fact.
Do We Really Value Women?: The Church and a Call for Gender Reconciliation
Christians must be at the forefront of confronting a culture that devalues women - starting with the American church.
Dignity in Community
There is a need for platforms to be constructed so that past, present, and future marginalized voices can be elevated. We choose by God’s grace to assert ourselves in the affirmative.
The NBA, NFL, and Policing Protest
Taking a knee is a patriotic act done to speak up for equality, diversity, and inclusion -- particularly the equality, acceptance, and inclusion of racial minorities.
Singin’ Us to Glory: The Life and Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
Celebrated for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, her greatest contribution is the model she gave on the Christian life.
Poem: A Voice of the Unheard
Lady Justice turns a blind eye from broken bronze bodies laid in mahogany.