Apprentice 2 Jesus

Racism

  • Grief and anger … another African American dead

    Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. George Floyd in Minneapolis. Lament. Anger. Deep grief. I was setting up my next interview/discussion on race this morning and the man I was messaging asked me if I saw what had JUST happened. Next week… another interview/discussion on race and racism. Look for it. But for… Read more

  • For the white American church… it’s time

    “The white evangelical church has a long and lamentable history of silence when African Americans are under attack. Wouldn’t this be the right time to stand with the African American community and say these senseless killings have got to stop? Wouldn’t it be beneficial to expand your abortion views and resources to include the value… Read more

  • The divided past I lived and the future we are invited to change

    This post is STILL about racism and Ahmaud Arbery. It’s not about Ahmaud Arbery alone, so I am giving you time to bail off this post. This will be a longer post about a lot of aspects concerning racism, and things I have to realize even from my own younger life. Read more

  • The sin of the community

    Buried in the “flyover country” of the Pentateuch are laws regarding community responsibility when an unsolved murder took place. Read more

  • Grief Spoken — the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery

    Kirk Franklin adds his voice to the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. Read more

  • DO “Black Lives Matter?” A reprise

    TRIGGER WARNING: (As if you weren’t already warned in the title of the post.) If you thought the arrest of the two men who lynched Ahmaud Arbery was enough… the end… then you need to stop RIGHT HERE and move on to other things. My lament continues. There are things to still talk about. Things… Read more

  • Why we must persist concerning injustice — Ahmaud Arbery

    FAIR WARNING DISCLAIMER: I am not done in the process of lament concerning the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. I am FAR from done as to action that needs to be taken when it comes to our utter blindness over racism in our country. You’ve been warned. I saw a quick exchange between two African American… Read more

  • Injustice in the time of coronavirus

    A couple of days in lament isn’t going to cool me off when it comes to injustice. SOOOO… here is your warning. I will keep going on matters of racism and injustice for a bit. It is out of lament. It is out of a deep hunger to get our souls bared before the Righteous… Read more

  • The longing for justice in the time of coronavirus

    I am still processing through the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. (The story is HERE if you haven’t yet seen or heard.) There is mourning and lament. There is a deeper call of the Spirit to keep stepping up… a journey I have been on for several years now. A journey to be anti-racist. Read more

  • The need for toughmindedness

    “There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on the… Read more