Truth & Love Blog
Tin Man and Evangelical Christianity
Tin Man and Evangelical ChristianityThe Sci-Fi channel recently aired a six-hour mini-series, Tin Man, updating The Wizard of Oz. This was not your Auntie Em’s yellow brick road!In the original movie version, no one could confuse the good guys (and girls) with the bad...
Shrek the Halls?
Shrek the Halls?I’m normally not one to expect TV Christmas specials to uphold the true meaning of Christmas. A secular program is going to be secular. However, when a secular program subtly and not-so-subtly moves from secular to sacrilegious, that’s going too...
Venture Smith: Pulling the Rope in Unison
Venture Smith: Pulling the Rope in Unison[i]It has become something of a cliché to imagine that Black families today find it difficult to experience stability because of a long history of instability caused by slavery and racism. While not at all minimizing the...
African American Spirituals
African American Spirituals: Telling the Rest of the Story[i] To appreciate the meaning, message, and mutual ministry of the slave spirituals, it is vital to understand how and why they were composed. Carey Davenport, a retired Black Methodist minister from Texas, had...
Maria Stewart: A Voice for the Voiceless
Maria Stewart: A Voice for the Voiceless[i]In September 1832, in Boston, Massachusetts, Maria Stewart (1803-1879) did something that no American-born woman of any race before her undertook. She mounted a lecture platform and raised a political argument before an...
Daniel Alexander Payne: The Rosa Parks of His Day
Daniel Alexander Payne: The Rosa Parks of His DayRosa Parks (1913-2005) was the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement” according to the U.S. Congress. On December 1, 1955, Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give...
African Americans and Biblical Counseling
African Americans and Biblical CounselingI’ve been reflecting a lot lately on African Americans and biblical counseling. Leaders in various biblical counseling movements lament the low percentage of African Americans attending their conferences.Why? I think my study...
“Rule Over!”
“Rule Over!”In my previous blog, I asked and answered the question, “What are the first words spoken by God to a human being?”The answer? Not Genesis 1:28, but Genesis 2:16.Genesis 1:28 was spoken to Adam and Eve, and thus chronologically had to occur in the context...
“You Are Free!”
"You Are Free"What are the first words spoken by God to a human being?Most of us would immediately say they are the words spoken in Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and increase in number.”However, those words were spoken to Adam and Eve. “God blessed them and said to them....
Beyond the Suffering SeminarOn Saturday, February 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., on the Main Lanham Campus of Washington Bible College/Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD, I will present a seminar based on my latest book, Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy...
