In the same week that a white supremacist murdered two African-Americans at a local Kroger grocery store and a white supremacist murdered 11 Jewish people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, Dr. Jarvis Williams preached on Galatians 3:1-14 in Louisville, Kentucky. In his message, Williams touches on the sweet truth that Jesus is our Redeemer and liberator. He also […]
If anyone of us find ourselves walking with the Lord against the tide of this sinful world, we must give all the glory to God. Let him who boast, boast in the Lord!
I have been a father for over eight years, and fatherhood has been a source of great joy for me. It has also been a source of some of the deepest grief as we buried our oldest five years ago. One of my deepest fears was met in that moment. I couldn’t protect her from […]
I don’t know about you, but prayer isn’t often my default. With good news, or bad, bright times and dark times, I sometimes turn to family and friends before I turn to God. I believe this sermon by Pastor H.B. Charles Jr. is for people just like me. In his message, Pastor H.B. highlights how the […]
The first post of this series provided a few basics of biblical interpretation. I stated the goal of biblical interpretation is to understand the author’s intended meaning in the text and to think carefully about how to apply the text in modern contexts, so that we would be transformed by the Spirit as God uses […]
In part 1 of our series on biblical interpretation, I stated the goal of biblical interpretation is to study the text to discern the author’s intent, and to think responsibly about practical application of the text. The biblical author communicated an intended meaning that he wanted his audience to understand. The reader must labor in […]
As a black/brown professor of New Testament Interpretation at a predominately white seminary, I often ask my students whether they’ve ever read a non-white author. The amount who haven’t is staggering. Based on my travels throughout the country, and interaction with people who’ve studied at different institutions, I’ve learned many students can earn an undergraduate degree, a master’s degree, and even a Ph.D. in 2017 without being required to read […]
Selfishness fails to balance our concern for others and robs us of being contributing members of God’s community. It creates spiritual blind spots that centralize our affairs and minimizes the issues of others.
Much ink has been spilled on how the concept of colorblindness is not only unhelpful, but actively harmful. Yet, people who want to claim they don’t see color, or say things such as, “there’s only one race: the human race” are plentiful. You can see them come out in droves in the comment section of any […]
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”—Jeremiah 12:4 How often do you ponder what life was like in the garden prior to […]
Like any academic discipline, the discipline of biblical hermeneutics is rife with complex debates. But many scholars have recognized for a long time that biblical hermeneutics refers to how one understands and applies the bible. Every reader of the bible is an interpreter, but no reader of the bible interprets the bible from a neutral […]
As I wrote several months ago, multi-ethnic church conversations are currently popular in Christian circles. However, by multi-ethnic church, Christians from majority culture often mean they want more minorities to attend their worship services, and to assimilate. Some Christian spaces want black and brown faces, but not black and brown voices or leadership. Some from […]
The Acropolis of The Word of Faith Movement The Word of Faith movement is one of the largest growing movements within Protestant Christianity. Its gospel permeates congregations across the ethnic and denominational spectrum, both in the United States and throughout the world: white, black, Latino, African, and Asian, Baptist, Pentecostal, COGIC, and Assemblies of God. […]
Have you had days when your prayers felt dry and mechanical? You may be wondering what to do when your prayer life is cold. How do you engage your affections? The answers are in Psalm 123.
Biblical interpretation is socially situated. One of the courses I teach at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is Biblical Hermeneutics. This course focuses on methods of bible study. I also focus on the history of biblical interpretation from the apostolic period to the post-modern era, exegetical method, transmission of the bible from ancient texts to […]
This is Part 2 of Ameen Hudson’s, Evangelicalism and White Centered Discipleship, series. For Part 1, please click here. These virulent norms bleed into marriage and family roles, creating a paradigm based off of middle-class, white cultural norms that are not everyone’s reality or desire. Men of color are left searching for the quintessential wife […]
As a Christian, who follows and worships a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth, I forthrightly say that every Christian should speak against Anti-Semitism before and after it raises its ugly head in the church and in society. Anti-Semitism is Anti-Christ.
When it comes to the hot topic of Immigration in the United States, one of the healthiest things we can do as Christians is simply open up the Bible and see what God has to say about it. Although we have the right to have different perspectives on immigration politically and economically, we must first seek to have a biblical perspective.
Uncertainty’s pit is dangerously deep. Once you fall in, it isn’t long before you lose sight of reality and get accustomed to its darkness.
Donald Trump, The Environment, and The Christian Recently Outside Magazine released an article titled, “An Illustrated Guide To Trump’s Plan For The Environment.”[1] In the comic book-styled piece, the author playfully shares what she imagines the first 100 days under Trump might look like for our planet, and it is really grim. It’s no secret […]
