“My candidate will best your candidate!” We will know the winner of Election 2012 sooner or later according to the pundits. Sooner may mean by midnight tonight. Later could mean by week’s end. Except, I am not interested in playing the game of one-upmanship. Let’s agree not to … Continue reading
My friend Travis interviews Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann on Democrats and Republicans and Meaningless Narratives.
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Black. Southern Baptist. Pastor. Alone these words seem simple descriptions. Tied together – Black Southern Baptist Pastor – the same words produce irony. We would only need a good Southern Baptist historian, maybe Bart Barber, to help us learn the historical scandal of such a description. They do … Continue reading
I would rather take in another off-Broadway production of Les Miserables than another Presidential debate, hands down. One is excellent theater, the other not so much.
Marty Duren writes an Open Letter to the Commission On Presidential Debates. After I read it I thought of the old saying, … Continue reading
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Race Is No Longer an Issue? or, Maybe My SBC Friends Will Rethink Our Progress
Recently Dwight McKissic raised issue with a Texas Baptist pastor who was against Mitt Romney before he was for him. He noted that once Romney won the nod for the Republican Presidential nomination, said pastor softened his rhetoric and amped up his support. In the piece, Dwight reminded … Continue reading
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