The Holy Man and the Lord A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one dayand said, “Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.”The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors andthe holy man looked in. In the middle of the…

James Coleman is professor of African American literature at my alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill (go Tar Heels!). He is a thought provoking writer and speaker and one of his central subjects is the sacred and the spiritual in the African American community. His recent work “Faithful Vision” Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in…

These are troubling times. Chaucer once queried “If gold rusts, what then will iron do?” and he was worred about ministers. So am I. I train them and deal with them day in and day out. Its not just that pornography has over 400,000 of its own websites, the number one subject matter available on…

Conservative Christian organizers are getting together again, led by James Dobson of Focus on the Family fame. They are worried. They sense a lot of disaffection at the grassroots level amongst those who voted Republican two years ago. Here is a link to the article by David Kilpatrick—http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/us/politics/25conserve.html?th&emc=th They should indeed be worried. The war…

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