Once again a prayer from Walter Brueggeman’s Prayers for a Privileged People. Salvation Oracles (On reading Isaiah 43.1-5) There is a long list of threats around us: terror, cancer, falling markets, killing, others unlike us in all their variety, loneliness, shame, death – the list goes on and we know it well. And in the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Do ever feel as if your life has come off the tracks? Right now, there are hints of derailment going on at our home. First, my wife, Rochelle pulled her Achilles and is in the third week of a six week confinement to a boot and crutches. Second, her mother, who was here to help [...]
Borrowing again from sportswriter Peter King, here are 5 Things I Think I Think. 1. Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog has the best take on the Dobson/Obama biblical debate. Check it out here. 2. The most nervous person in the world yesterday was Tiger Woods’ knee surgeon. Can you say “Billion Dollar Knee?” 3. Nothing [...]
Today is Father’s Day. As I was playing with my daughters earlier I realized that they are what makes me a father, and they are the reason I want to be a good father. Chris Rock once said that father’s of daughters have one job: “to keep their daughters off the pole.” Obviously there is [...]
40 Years Later
Posted: June 12, 2008 in advocacy, authentically black, change, history, Obama, race relationsI’ve always had a romantic view of the 60’s. The stories my father taught me about courageous men and women protesting for equal rights as citizens and others who voiced opposition against the Vietnam War always seemed heroic to me. Part of me has always wished I could have lived then. I, unfortunately, grew up [...]
