Grumbling This Side of The Cross

Jan 05

I have been meditating on grumbling over the last two weeks or so. It really came to head about a week ago and even more Monday. The cleaners lost two of my brand new shirts. Shirts I haven’t even worn yet, but was taking them to get pressed and I was very upset. I didn’t say much or do much but I am sure the woman so the frustration on my face and in my...

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Flame’s New Album “Captured”

Jan 04

Flame has blessed us with his fifth album to date.  I own all of these albums and now should pursue a greatest hits collection. The album has 12 tracks but really 11 songs (one is sort of a sermon). So out of the 11 songs there is one that  may have to grow on me named alive. There are about 6 tracks that I really really like and the other 4 are good songs to...

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Quest for the Perfect Church

Jan 04

Over the last two plus years, I have been on a quest to find the perfect church. I had these strict demands and I wasn’t going to quit until these demands were met. I had an ideal vision of what church should look like and I wanted that ideal to become a reality. And I did this at all cost. No matter who I alienated, no matter who I offended, no matter what...

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New Direction/Happy New Year.

Jan 03

If you have followed my writing long enough, you will find that I occasionally… okay…. frequently change my mind. Always remember I never have bad intentions. So I will be going in a different direction or acutally an old direction for those who followed Black and Reformed or Better Covenant or many of the other names. This is one of the reasons I have...

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The Black Family: The Foundation For African American Progression

Nov 17

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained” ~~ Winston Churchill Calvin Clark is the greatest pastor in the world. Hands down anything that I know, everything that I value and almost have the things I find myself revisiting came...

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Low Expectations: The Greatest Enemy of the Urban Poor

Nov 15

Here is a quote I would like to share: “We will never be a truly great nation as long as we continue to have lowered expectations for any of our people. We should promote education, hard work and discipline. We should expect all the people to have the highest of expectations for themselves. In life we should expect a hand up not a handout.” I would like...

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Ten Best African American Films

Oct 15

Okay I was thinking about this last night and decided to make a controversial list of the 10 best African American films. By African American I mean that the film’s lead actors and actresses are African American and typically is conveying some message about African American Culture. This list is in reverse order and are movies I have actually watched (I have...

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