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The Parable of the Absent Mother
The Parable of the Absent Mother

The 15th chapter of Luke contains a trilogy of parables settling around the theme of loss, and the joy that comes when one recovers what was lost: a lost sheep,

He Didn’t Have To Do It
He Didn’t Have To Do It

On this Good Friday in the year of our Lord 2017, I would like to remind you of something: Jesus didn’t have to do it. As we reflect this day

Six Words That Run Folks Right Out the Church
Six Words That Run Folks Right Out the Church

Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images “And you call yourself a Christian.”  That’s what Mac told Gigi after she tried to warn the woman he was apparently on

Pouring Out a Little Oil for #BlackWomenAtWork
Pouring Out a Little Oil for #BlackWomenAtWork

During this season of Lent, I think it is important to consider the people who were committed followers of Christ that don’t get as much shine as the named disciples.

Singing a Black Girl Song
Singing a Black Girl Song

Black girls have gone missing. They are being labeled as runaways. Black girls are being hurt, being abused, being assaulted. Learn their names. Check their cities. Shaun King wrote a

Greenleaf Season Two Premiere: Preaching Grace, Not Perfection
Greenleaf Season Two Premiere: Preaching Grace, Not Perfection

Embed from Getty Images Now that we’ve had some time to reattach our bottom jaws after that season two opener of Greenleaf last night, I am here to tell you

A Little Drop of Hope After a Very Trying Year
A Little Drop of Hope After a Very Trying Year

It’s the last week of 2016. The first thing that came up as I wrote this? Good riddance. It was a rough year in ways I don’t need to reiterate

What Would Jesus Have To Say About ‘Fake’ News?
What Would Jesus Have To Say About ‘Fake’ News?

Two words I am sick of hearing in this post-election reality of what else can we talk about? news coverage: “fake news.” Never mind how helpful it might have been

What Whitney Houston Teaches Us About Transcendent Despair
What Whitney Houston Teaches Us About Transcendent Despair

Embed from Getty Images When times get rough, and they are most certainly rough post 2016 election,  I turn to music. There has always been a transcendent quality to Whitney

When Proverbs 31 Becomes Misogynoir 101
When Proverbs 31 Becomes Misogynoir 101

After the strobe light anxiety-triggering-mind-numbing results of the election, I remembered an episode of “Preachers of Detroit,” a reality show about ministers and their families that aired on Oxygen in