A detailed article about the four basics of racial reconciliation: theological foundations for cross-cultural reconciliation, the essentials of cultural transformation, the pillars of culture and ideological barriers to racial reconciliation. Please read and share your thoughts.
Read MoreThere she is in front of you—a husky, black woman wearing a bandana, a cutoff t-shirt, and stained sweatpants. Four rowdy kids run circles around her at the Safeway checkout. She wreaks of marijuana. You see her name on the greasy food stamp card that she hands to the clerk. Her name is Shannon. No, actually, upon second glance you read that her name is Shanaynay.
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One evening, a group of my friends were gathered around the dinner table, discussing Denver's homelessness issue, when one friend recalled how he did an experiment in college in which he pretended to be homeless for a week. He slept on the streets, ate from shelters, and even panhandled for money just to see what it was like to be homeless. In jest, I leaned over to my friend Ike and said that he should try it. “Why would I ever do that?”
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The Denver Post wrote a piece on Marray Napue, a special young man I've mentored since he was in high school. He's come from the bottom, but is rising to the top—a bit like a guy named Joseph in the Bible.
Read MoreAsher Lev grows up as a Jewish boy “in a cloistered Hassidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe.” Asher possesses a special gift to feel with his eyes and paint his world in profound ways. “In time, his gift threatens to estrange him” from the only world he knows and the parents he cherishes.
Read MoreLately, I have encountered an increasing number of people who are popping blood vessels over what they perceive to be the deterioration of proper English in the United States. I don’t know if it ever occurs to them that hardly anyone in North America speaks proper classic English anymore and that most of us don’t consider most modern adaptations of English bad. Everyone makes language adapt to their purposes, the debate seems to arise over how much we are allowed to bend language.
Read MoreI was extremely honored and thankful not only to read scripture today, but also to receive the Raymond McLaughlin Preaching Award from the faculty of Denver Seminary at our commencement ceremony.
Read MoreA poem by Anthony Grimes Jr.
Read MoreJesus’ ministry to the indigenous is to bind them up (a hebrew term used for bandaging a wound), proclaim freedom, and to release them. The emotional baggage of their past will be dealt with and healed. Further, Jesus will “bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair” (3). But does the gospel stop there; does it end at what the Messiah will do for the broken, the poor and the despised?
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As a boy, I remember stumbling across my mother’s writings. I was fascinated with her knack for telling stories and recreating life so that the mundane became adventurous.
Here's the foreword I wrote for my mom's new book, “I Remember Your Smile.”
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