I am not sure but in my opinion, there a few law makers who do not like President Obama. I cannot rationalize their responses only as emotional outburst. Everyone who knows something – anything about Christian faith senses something else; something sinister and ugly about this kind of reactionary character. Joe Wilson, as an example, […]
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Never mind the content of the state of the union address, January 28, 2010. But the context, that, we should take notice. Remember Congressman Joe Wilsons’ private war? During the health care speech, Mr. Wilson called the president a “liar.” Vice President Biden turned like a bald eagle toward the utterance. Speaker Nancy Pelosi too […]
Recently, Patricia and I saw the new Star Trek movie. We have been life long fans of the originial television series. We grew up watching James Tiberius Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Scottie and of course Aurora. The new edition was an account of the beginning of the beginning. Though I thought it had […]
Borrowing from Longinus’ sublimity, I contend that whatever worship is, it is “elevated by style” and it is most effective because of an essence of “simplicity.” This is vogue for the “jazz - people.” Some call them hip – hop, but it is some kind of neo-jazz, a hybrid of post -structuralism […]
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Over the last two decades, we have experienced a cultural paradigm shift among African Americans. If this is certain, this effects and prompts a shift in African American Baptist’s culture as a predominate worldview. On the first hand, younger African Americans are no longer a monolithic “blues – people,” which African American Baptists of all stripes […]
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During the memorial service for Dr. Warren Lewis, my mind wandered backward to days of my youth and days of his strength. He was the single largest figure in the life of most of us in my small town. He was polemic and controversial. Our majority community was fearful of him; he was graduate school […]
“Religion, if banished to the realm of mere feeling, has ceased to be dangerous for any
rational and practical human enterprise. But, we must add, it also has lost its seriousness, its truth, and its ultimate meaning. In the atmosphere of mere subjectivity of feeling without a definite objective of emotion, without an ultimate content, […]
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Sleep on Old Soldier, Sleep On, How long? Not Long! This is a rhetorical pathos - phrase; it is an emotional appeal that belongs to African American funeral oratory. Aristotle calls this epideictic speech or ceremonial discourse. It is a way to appeal for future hope, it is a way to praise and avoid blame […]
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I stood to speak to an aging delegation, they were people that I have known all of my life – it seems. I had worried that I may not rhetorically connect with them, since it had been so long that I stood before them. I am different; I am older and more seasoned and sure […]
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Over the past days, uniformly, Mr. Obama has been criticized for meeting with Latin American leaders; namely Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez. Some may remember the 1980’s Iran Contra scandal, as it was called. It involved “guns for hostages.” Two worlds apart, Nicaragua and Iran were associated by an elaborate scheme to free Americans and […]
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