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The Jazz Theologian

This man had immeasurable kingdom impact!  (Read the CT article, “John Stott Has Died,” here)

Old School Playlist:  Let’s Get in On and Sexual Healing! (Rated M–for Mature audiences only)

Major scales are hopeful. Minor scales are not. The blues linger simultaneously in between–defiantly loving. Blue notes are flat, slightly dissonant yet expectant. Jazz never forgets the blues. Christianity always remembers the cross.

This month at The Sankofa Institute we are discussing education. Most agree that the education system in the U.S. has serious flaws.  Politicians point out that we are falling behind our competition and promise to do something about it.  Rod Paige says that the problem is the black/white achievement gap and asserts that it is…

This weekend is so bittersweet for those of us who grew up without fathers.  The statistics are 40% of all children and 70+% of African-Americans grow up without a man in the house.  It creates a pain and longing that lasts a lifetime. I still remember my grandmother taking me to a department store and…

Carl Ellis in his book, Free At Last? The Gospel in the African-American Experience, makes this profound statement: It is a disgrace that we have not learned to preache ‘the full counsel of God’ through our history, the way Stephen and later Paul were able to preach through Jewish history (Acts 7.2-53; 13.16-41).” When we…

During the 1930’s, in order to reduce unemployment during the Great Depression, the government funded The Federal Writers’ Project. One of their assignments was to interview many of the 100,000 former slaves that were still alive in the United States. I first came across these slave narratives when I was in middle school. I remember…

Elisa Morgan, President Emerita of MOPS (Mother’s of Preschoolers) and prolific author, shares this timely message:  Broken Family Values
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