Posted in America, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Discipleship, Hospitality, Immigration, Jesus, Justice, Life, Ministry, Peace, Politics, Poverty, Prayer, Race, Racism, Relationships, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality, tagged Immigrant Rights, Worker's Rights on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
his past Friday, May 1, 2009, I joined with thousands of others across the country in marching for immigrant and worker’s rights. I was part of the march that began in Echo Park in Los Angeles, went down Sunset Boulevard, and concluded in front of Our Lady of Queen Angeles Church near historic Olvera [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Culture, Homelessness, Justice, Life, Ministry, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve spent the last, roughly, two years working at a homeless shelter. In fact, this is the first Monday in a long while that I haven’t spent at the shelter doing things like helping homeless men create and stick to a budget, look for work, gain self-esteem, and learn life skills like cooking, opening [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Culture, Justice, News, Peace, Politics, Religion, Social Justice, tagged Barack Obama, Torture on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t heard, President Obama released four memos from the Bush administration approving of and describing acts of torture used by our government. You can read about it here and here and here. I was asked by the people at the God’s Politics blog to write a piece regarding this announcement since [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, Book Review, Books, Christianity, Church of Christ, History, Religion, School, tagged Christian America and the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of God, Messiah College, Pepperdine University, Richard T. Hughes on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very excited for the release of Christian America and the Kingdom of God by Richard T. Hughes on July 22, 2009. Dr. Hughes is currently a professor at Messiah College, but he was my Church History professor while I was at Pepperdine University. Dr. Hughes has devoted much of his scholarship to [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Church of Christ, Culture, Devotions, Discipleship, Homelessness, Justice, Ministry, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I came across this wonderful poem, “Outside the Camp,” written by Brad East. Brad’s a guy who I’ve gotten to know through my blog and he has some really good insights at his blog Resident Theology. You should definitely check it out. He’s a fellow CofC’er and a student at Candler [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Politics, Prayer, Race, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Religion, Theology, tagged Barack Obama, Inauguration 2009, Joseph Lowery, Rick Warren on January 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
All of the hoopla about prayer heading into President Obama’s inauguration was about the choice for Rick Warren to be give the opening prayer. While I appreciated Mr. Warren’s prayer, I think he was more inclusive than people expected him to be and I appreciated his willingness to ask for national forgiveness (although I [...]
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Posted in America, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Justice, Ministry, News, Peace, Politics, Race, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Relationships, Religion, Social Justice, tagged Adolf Grimes III, Amadou Diallo, Anthony Hamilton, Barack Obama, Oakland Riots, Oscar Grant III, Robbie Tolan, Rodney King, Sam Cooke, Sean Bell on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The day after Barack Obama was elected president I heard people say multiple times that we have now arrived as a “post-racial” nation and that it can now be said that anyone can truly be president if a black man can be. That same day on the front page of the New York Times [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Devotions, Discipleship, History, Jesus, Justice, Race, Racial Reconiliation, Racism, Religion, Social Justice, tagged Thanksgiving on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
remember growing up we would have Thanksgiving with several families from our church. Being the child of a soldier and an immigrant I didn’t grow up around my blood family. These people, however, soon became my family and I miss spending the holiday with them now that I am in the far [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Devotions, Discipleship, News, Peace, Race, Racial Reconiliation, Racism, Relationships, Religion, Social Justice, Theology, tagged Barack Obama, Hate Crimes on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
hanks to Larry James for letting us know about this article. According to Associated Press writer Jesse Washington, after Obama’s election incidents of race based hate crimes escalated across the country. I guess, no matter the rhetoric of some commentators, we really aren’t living in a post-racial country. Read the article here [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Justice, Politics, Religion, Social Justice, Theology, tagged Barack Obama, Election 2008, Reinhold Niebuhr on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I came across this wonderful piece by Jonathan Walton at Religion Dispatches that clearly articulates the significance of Barack Obama’s election as president while also putting that in dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr’s (the guy Obama says is his favorite theologian, FYI) “Christian realism” to make clear that Obama is no new savior. In fact, [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Bible, Christianity, Culture, Devotions, Discipleship, Jesus, Justice, Money, News, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice, Theology, tagged Haiti, Hunger, North Korea on November 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
ccording to this article 691,000 children went hungry in America last year. According to this article parents in Haiti (and many other countries) have to choose which child will starve to death because there is not enough food to feed their families. Something I am very passionate about, but have not mentioned much [...]
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