Black History Month 2015

Toxic environments are not limited to chemical plants, corporate climates or political back rooms. The church can be toxic as well. A church environment becomes toxic when the system is closed, power is abused, consent to sin is mistaken for loyalty and telling the truth is forbidden. It happens when a needy, unhealthy leader with […]

It’s Black History Month 2015. This is a time of remembering the many great contributions of African-Americans in the history of our great nation. We have experienced many advances made possible from contributions from members of the African-American community. Beyond the familiar names that we hear every year, advances have been made by countless African-American

Through the years, the body of Christ has been criticized for being personality-driven and events-oriented. Success in ministry today is too often measured not by the response to the altar call but by church attendance, the number of preaching invitations a pastor receives and whether the congregation gets revved up during worship services. But I

I recently listened to a sermon by Arthur Burke titled Treasures of the African Americans. In it he alleged that God deposited certain traits in certain races that were designed to be a blessing to humanity. These are traits that we must embrace and redeem in order to actualize God’s intent for granting them. I

It is no secret that religious gays and lesbians are on a relentless quest to establish theological credibility for same-sex relationships in the black church today. It’s also no secret that they are gaining ground. Although the quandary of religious homosexuality is not unique to the black church, certain efforts by religious gays are destabilizing

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 40 percent of blacks believe African-Americans should no longer be viewed as a single community. The poll put scientific heft behind what many African-Americans have known forever: Black America is as culturally diverse and ideologically sophisticated as the rest of the nation. How else can

This year Clarence Thomas enters his 25th year on the Supreme Court. In the 226-year history of the court, he is the second African-American Supreme Court Justice, after Thurgood Marshall, who served from 1967 to 1991. Clarence Thomas’ life is unusual because he is a black political conservative who lost his first marriage, conquered rage