Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. The discussion of Biblical standards versus societal standards is not a new one. These questions go back to several hundred years to the earliest Christians and they persist even today. The question is (in one way or anoth ...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. When I think about familiar Bible stories, the story Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind. However, like a movie I haven’t seen in a while, I can recall the major plot points but the details can escape me. I know that Sodom and ...
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 ...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. On Friday, July 31, Beyonce released the visual album Black is King on Disney+ and received critical acclaim. It currently has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 84% on Metacritic, and 85% on Google. While the reviews have been g ...
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 ...
Is Being Faith Filled an Excuse to be Foolish and Irresponsible?Let me begin by acknowledging that having faith and being foolish are not necessarily mutually exclusive. A person could be doing something in complete faith that certainly looks like foolish ...
Do Christians Have to Follow the Old Testament Law of Moses? Why Return to Bondage? January 1, 1863, saw the Emancipation of enslaved people in the South. According to the historian Eugene Genovese, about fifteen percent of enslaved people stayed with t ...
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 ...
We live in a patriarchal society. It is one where the lives and contributions of men are valued over and above those of women. Unfortunately, this patriarchal view of society has infiltrated the church and even affects our interpretation of scripture. So ...
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 ...
