Conversation with my wife’s grandmother, Daisy, had been cordial and mostly forgettable…until she started talking about her childhood as a sharecropper. My wife, my son, me and Ms. Daisy had been driving in the car on our way back from Kansas City, Missouri after spending Easter with my in-laws. A surge of wakefulness knocked me […]
[I approach speaking of war imagery with sobriety, knowing that many people live in such a reality every day. As God may turn even the most horrible sins upside down for his good purposes, I pray that any association a person may have with war is used for encouragement and perseverance in Christ.] Growing up, […]
Last week, Huffington Post contributor Yvette Carnell published “Why Black Liberals Need to Take Back [The] Black Agenda From The Black Church.” In it, the founder of the Breaking Brown media hub felt she “made the case” that the Black Church had outlived its political usefulness, and should take a back seat to Black liberals […]
Earlier this week Hip Hop artist, Lecrae, visited the set of 106 and Park. As someone who grew up watching the show, it was a bit surreal to see one of my favorite artist on that set, though he has been on the show a few times now. Most Christian hip hop fans thought that […]
Last month, I transitioned out of my position as an intern with Reformed University Fellowship. For the past three years, I worked as staff with RUF at Jackson State University. Before Jackson State, I was apart of RUF at Belhaven University. I absolutely LOVE the ministry of RUF as a whole, but the presence of RUF at […]
Who would have thought a Cheerios commercial could spark racial rage? A recently released ad for the classic American cereal featured a White mother, a Black father, and an interracial child. The Commercial and Its Comments The child asks the mother if she’s sure Cheerios are good for the heart and when the mom replies that […]
How do you respond when you are racially profiled? Maybe this has never happened to you, but it happens to me all the time. The offenders of this kind of racial profiling aren’t racist white police officers. They aren’t white TSA agents looking to find a person with the “right” skin tone to hassle. The […]
Double Consciousness “There’s a way you act at home and a way you act at school,” my mother would remind me as I recapped the events of the school day. I learned quickly how to speak, act, and look in a world dominated by white faces. I learned to value what the majority population valued, […]
In the 1970’s, I visited a picturesque Philadelphia neighborhood of well-kept row-homes owned by middle-class Black folk. Noticing a forest of “for sale” signs littering the front lawns, had I not known better, I would have assumed the proliferation of signs was due to “White flight” – but these were Black homeowners. When I inquired about the […]
Feeling guilty about your white privilege? In this video, Dr. Anthony Bradley talks about how White males can use their privilege for the good of all mankind. What are your thoughts about white privilege? Does it exist? What is your take on Dr. Bradley’s advice? Comment below! INTERESTED IN MORE FROM DR. BRADLEY? WE RECOMMEND: […]
I see myself as a walking paradox. There are many manifestations of the human condition that I find repugnant, yet that I also find present in me. Some would say that this makes me conflicted at best, hypocritical and self-loathing at worst. Yet and still, I know I’m not alone, as many similarly struggle with […]
What if you really believed God is with you? What couldn’t you do? What would you fear to attempt for His glory? Called, But Not Courageous I’m an admitted dreamer. An idealist. I have a million ideas for how to make the world a better place, and I’m even convinced a few of them will […]
In 1978, Andrae Crouch released his project “Live In London”, his seventh album with his group at the time, the Disciples. Crouch, a very influential composer and musician in the Gospel genre, broke new ground with each and every song he penned. With songs such as “The Blood (Will Never Lose Its Power)”, “Through It […]
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Southern Baptist school’s dismissal of conservative outrages Southern Baptist leaders You may remember a story about Dr. Jarvis Williams, professor at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, whose contrast was not renewed, perhaps because of his traditional Christian views. I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Williams for a research project I did in seminary. He gives […]
Two Reformed African American brothers, Lance Lewis and Anthony Bradley, sat down at an event in Washington D.C. called “The Future of Race in American Evangelicalism.” The meeting was held as part of the book launch for Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership is Overlooked in White Christian Church and Institutions edited by Bradley […]
Here is a good article by George Weigel over at First Things entitled “Tribulation Compounded by Blasphemy.” As the Revised Standard Version renders the fourteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas remind the proto-Christians of Antioch that it is only “through many tribulations” that we enter the Kingdom of God. The New […]
Allow me to introduce the RAANetwork family to Jeremy Johnson. For 3 years I worked alongside El McGowan (Campus Minister) under the umbrella of Reformed University Fellowship as an intern. During my second year, Rev. McGowan assigned me to the Freshman class and this is where I met Jeremy. I became one of his mentors […]
By the age of 12, I had lost my mother and father to the AIDS virus in Uganda. My aunt, whom I now call my mother, adopted my brothers and I here in the US. Through my earthly adoption and as God continued to reveal himself to me, I’ve come to understand the awesome privilege […]
by Karen Ellis, Regular Contributor A curious command and promise opens Isaiah 54: 1 “Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! 2 For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” […]
