Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. According to Pew Research, in 2007, when the first Religious Landscape Study was conducted, only 12% of Black Americans said they were religiously unaffiliated — that is, atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular.” By t ...
Let Me Say This
Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Let Me Say This... These blog posts are usually carefully curated, thoroughly researched, and extremely well thought out. I try and make the content SEO friendly without sacrificing integrity. Hopefully, the amount of ene ...
Black Lives Matter: Should Christians Support?
There are Christians Who Don’t Support Black Lives Matter? We recently learned about Jonathan Isaac, a basketball player and member of the Orlando Magic in the NBA. He made recently headlines for refusing to wear a Black Lives Matter t-shirt and refusing ...
The Christian Response to Injustice
Should Christians Respond to Injustice? In his masterful book “Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice”, Dr. Eric Mason likens racism and injustice to Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano that recently erupted. Homes an ...
Should Christians Own Guns for Self-Defense?
Estimated reading time: 8 mins. *Note: a 1,500-word blog post is certainly not enough time to tackle an issue as complex and layered as guns in America. In this article, I’ll seek to unravel why I felt the way I did about guns as a starting point for d ...
I’m Both Christian and Mad As Hell (and that’s okay…)
Estimated reading time: 5 mins. *In my best Sofia Petrillo voice* Picture it, New Orleans, October 3, 2019. This is the day that the seeds of “Black, Saved & Smart” were sown. The black community awaited the sentence for former Dallas police officer A ...