Celebrating My Unsung Rich Black Heritage Legacy and Future
Like many across this country I’ll joining the voices and libations celebrating Black Heritage Month acknowledging those ancestors and my contemporaries who have and are contributing to our heritage. That heritage doesn’t begin post Civil War or the Civil Rights era. It begins before many Africans from various tribes across the continent of Africa were… Read More
Conceal or Reveal: Is there ever a right action?
Scripture presents us with case scenarios of how we should deal with individuals who have failed because of public or private sin of some kind. Read More
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Anointed, Gifted, and Toxic
It is a duplicitous life at best and certainly an intoxicating one when the ministry gifts are on full display for people to be in awe and wonder of the individual in praxis but not the toxicity attached. Read More
Everybody Plays the Fool: What the election results say about our nation
There’s an old folktale about an elephant, a rabbit, and a whale. The whale and the elephant met together and both proclaimed their rule as the strongest animals on land and in the sea. While they were talking, a rabbit was nearby and decided to listen in. Once he heard their plan to rule all… Read More
The Blood Cries Out
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. Genesis 4:9-10 On October 19, 2016, my 18-year-old nephew was shot and killed in another senseless act… Read More
Will You Remember the Last Days of September?
September 2015 has is considered as a month to go down in history. There are those who are making deep connections to end time events such as the Rapture of Christians, an asteroid/comet collision with Earth, the rolling out of a global currency, empire, and New World Order, the rise of the Anti-Christ, and at… Read More
Jonah and the realization of reluctant ministry
Reluctance in ministry does not take away the need for ministry. Read More
Do Black Intellectuals Matter to the Master?
Recently, the New Republic magazine published an essay that created frenzy within the black public intellectual community. The Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson published a 10,000-word essay lambasting his former friend and mentor, Dr. Cornel West. Dr. Dyson lamented Dr. West’s descent into irrational outburst of public disdain against President Barack Obama. The essay establishes… Read More
Indiana as the crossroads of faith, tolerance, and community
The recent religious freedom restoration bill passed by the Indiana State legislature has created the latest uproar in a growing news cycle reporting on the infringement of rights for the LGBTQ community. Indiana’s SB 101 was created to protect the religious freedom for business owners, churches, and other religious related communities and organizations against those… Read More
Dr. Lorenzo T. Neal 