Although I would have hoped that every reader of my blogs would have gotten it by now, it bears repeating, as may soon be apparent, on the relationship between systems of belief and value, that the purpose of the former is to ground the latter, which is absolutely necessary for consonant living; and the former, … More Cosmological constants and variables
I suppose it’s always good to ground ourselves in some common earthly wisdom when our heads can at times get stuck in the clouds of lofty contemplations. So thought tentmaker Paul, who also had some sky-breaking revelations, unlawful to even talk about, yet recognized at the end of the day, one’s mortality is grounded in … More The Cherubim – Guardians of the Glory
Barak Obama on leaving the highest office of the land, contemplating what other worlds there may be to conquer, what other lions and bears there may be to slay, and being the epitome of an ambitious Black man, hardly yet in the prime of life, pondered taking on the next assignment, an office he thought … More The transition of Citizen TBJ
Prince of preachers, Oliver Daley, in delivering the sermon at the funeral service of the late Rae Davis, spoke eloquently about VISION (click for article) and the blessed state of those who fulfill the injunction of Hebrews 11 to walk by faith (no one as I explain in the above highlighted piece can live creatively … More Raeflections
Who or what is a non-christian? For that matter, who or what is a non-anything? However did unsuspecting people get trapped into the error of negatively defining themselves with respect to an alien identity? If I came up to you and said, there are only two types of people in the world. The YeKengales and … More The Vulgar P—- Word
For all the disrepute recently fallen upon prophets and prophecies, particularly those whose theology and politics are shaped by the kind of myopic fundamentalism that gives rise to the most regressive impulses in society…those working hard to turn back the clock or sundial to days of primitive tribalism and imperial conquest, sugar coated and stylized … More Seed and the sower
One of the most beautiful aspects of good relationship is the phenomenon of learning to take the position of another. Every relationship, (familial, cordial, intimate, business etc) naturally produces its own tensions at some time or other as egos clash. The person we think we are at any phase of our development has its built-in … More Relativity
Whose report will you believe? Information has never been as detailed, as prolific, as accessible, as accelerated as it now is. The challenge is in processing – which requires and relies on conscious and subconscious systems of filtration, then assimilation. But the right brain has always offered us cognitive short cuts. This is why Jesus … More On Hands
I am equally moved by the stories of Frederick K Price and Stephen Hawking. Contextual differences (the first a Black Preacher from LA who builds the world’s largest church at a time when blacks and builders were believed to be incongruous; the latter a genius that encounters the universe’s truths about time who was given … More Sacred Stories
I’m sure that if Jesus were to answer modern day disciples’ question on how to pray, the words would come out differently. Few seem to realize how Christian doctrines and praxes oft fundamentally differ from age to age and place to place. The most common understandings and practices from one place or era are so … More God’s address
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