In this day of the twenty four hours news cycle, info-tainment and stuff that passes as news but really is more personal opinion designed at fashioning a true idiocracy; where news organizations focus more on the celebrity life styles of the rich and famous than any serious or insightful analysis of American political life and culture, the political commentary [...]
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“Dem Was Da Days.”
I had a conversation with a middle aged man in my church who said that one day his son said to him, “Dad you play too much.” He thought this amusing and I chuckled out loud for a long time when I heard this. How refreshing that our children would think that we play too much; that [...]
Read more →Should Christians Only Be Concerned About “Spiritual Things” And Stay Out of Politics?
Several weeks ago I had a discussion with a man who said quite heatedly. “Christians should only be concerned about spiritual things and stay out of politics.” I asked this man why he thought that spiritual things did not involve our participation in politics since so much of political decision making affects us at every level of our daily lives. I [...]
Read more →What Mitt Romney Should Do Now
I have learned through many years of dealing with people to avoid the overgeneralizations and broad brushing tendencies that lump all persons of a particular group into one negative type. There are always exceptions to the rule that defy categorically the labels that we place on persons and groups. This can be said of today’s Republican Party. The Tea Party members who now [...]
Read more →The Man Who Did Everything All By Himself
Some people act as though they live in the world all alone and that their achievements are accomplished all by themselves. I am often amazed at the nature of discourse in our country today where some people believe that everything that they have accomplished in life was garnered solely by the wit and strength of their own powers. They give [...]
Read more →Rebuilding America’s Infrastructures
Recently there has been much discussion about rebuilding America’s physical infrastructures. Roads and bridges are in disrepair and the general condition of many pathways and passageways in America beg a complete overhaul and redoing. Congress should act immediately to provide funding for these initiatives and do so post haste. In another sense however, America should not only be [...]
Read more →What Will You Give This Christmas?
He was from Chicago. He loved baseball but he did not appreciate receiving from his wife at Christmas, “What it Means to Be a Chicago Cub.” He understood the meaning of personal suffering. He knew what it was like to have his hopes dashed year after year. He even identified with the infamous young man who interfered with the fly ball that cost the Cubs the [...]
Read more →M.L.King Jr. and the Five Forms of Human Poverty
Delivered at the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Birmingham Community House, Birimingham, Michigan January 16, 2011 America has made great progress in the granting Civil and Human rights to African Americans and other groups the last sixty years. Blacks are no longer the victims of the virulent and violent forms of racism so prevalent in the South [...]
Read more →The Lonely Soldier
The lonely soldier keeps attentive watch over the land before her. She gazes out and over her post while sacred memories transport her back to the cherished company of close friends and to a time when sweet laughter pervaded family gatherings at Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays and other informal celebrations. Her mind goes back to her sweet sixteen , her high school prom just a few years ago, the dance in the school [...]
Read more →The Occupy Movement
Recently, we have witnessed the emergence of the new American Occupy movement whose cries for justice, fairness and equality resonate with millions of people throughout this land. It is a movement that has taken upon itself the concerns of the many, the 99 percenters, whose pleas and protests for human dignity and equality of opportunity often fall upon the deaf [...]
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