Anatomy of All Parts of the Soul
Last week the defense team for former Mayor Catherine Pugh released a video apology by Ms. Pugh to the people of Baltimore for crimes she committed abusing her public office. Some immediately questioned the sincerity of Ms. Pugh’s apology given that the video was released in what ended up being a successful effort to reduce […]
Blessed by God?
This past week is not one that I would describe as blessed. On Monday, while changing the radiator in a car with one of my daughters on the streets of west Baltimore, we ducked down as we heard gunfire ring out with so many rounds I was sure someone was dead. Three people shot, including […]
Cultivating a Common Life
The Corinthians were divided over who is the better Christian, who gets the better seats at the table, who is the most righteous or the most authentic Christian? Is is people who have had the most ecstatic charismatic experiences, or those who have evidenced the most straightlaced moral piety? Is it those who have their […]
Lacking in Nothing
“I’ve worked for nothing. I’ve nothing to show for a life of hard work.” So says the mysterious servant in this passage in Isaiah. He could have been speaking for any number of people I’ve listened to recently. He could have been speaking the Black pastor who said to me last week, “I’ve never been […]
God Plays No Favorites
Chestertown, MD, November 24, 1931, “Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun: A mob of 500 persons, among whom were some of the most prominent residents of Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Cecil Counties, stormed the Kent County jail here tonight in an attempt to wreak vengeance upon George Davis, a 28 year-old Negro, arrested today in […]