I am so excited to share with you all about an art show that I am helping to organize. At Mill City Church, where I am a member, our small groups are organized around distinct missional purposes. The group that I am a part of, called Craft, is oriented towards the Arts community of Northeast Minneapolis. As part of an effort to support and engage local artists, we are running a juried art show this September. The show […]
White Space Maintaining black dignity in white space is the name of the game of life for a black person in the Anglo-American realm. Conversational and cultural norms are undoubtedly white in this realm. This can be brutal in its exhaustion and confusion and can be seriously disorienting for black folk working and living in this space. Once a black American enters white space, which is usually located right outside of their door, they are instantly an […]
Americans don’t like talking about slavery and its aftermath. Of course, many countries and peoples have their truly dark chapters, and none of their citizens “like” talking about those things either. But as is often the case, we do things different in America. Whereas Germany criminalizes holocaust denial and has erected an ineluctable memorial in the center of Berlin for Holocaust victims, and whereas Rwanda has constructed a similar memorial space for the Tutsi lives nearly […]
Now that summer break is here, I finally had time to binge watch a Netflix show, and discovered Aggretsuko, an anime series based on a Sanrio character. Retsuko is a cute little red panda, and while she is a sweet, compliant, 25-year old accountant by day, she is a death-metal karaoke singer by night. She feels the daily grind of the 9 to 5 day job, with a chauvinistic boss, and difficult coworkers. Because she […]
I love thinking about friendship. Even more, I love having friends. In my most recent reading of Augustine’s Confessions, I couldn’t help but notice the respectable bishop seemed to share some of my feelings of longing and affection when it comes to possessing and enjoying the good of friendship. Though Augustine never wrote a treatise on friendship, scholars generally consider Augustine as the first to seriously consider the role of friendship in the Christian life. […]
We don’t live in a Western film. You know, the one where the good guys wear white and outshoot the dastardly villains in black? That kind of world in which exist only the good, the bad, and the ugly, is not our world. It would certainly be easier if the true villains of our world’s problems wore certain types of clothes that were indicative of their evil disposition. (Why is it usually black?). It would […]
Recently a new phenomenon has hit the Christian scene becoming a staple of most radio stations and many Sunday morning worship services, Reckless Love. No, not the Finnish Guns and Roses cover band, the worship song by Cory Asbury. This song, despite its insanely huge popularity, has taken some criticism from many high profile Christian authorities. Most recently, John Piper offered some veiled criticism of the song, implying that, even though he didn’t know the […]
I recently had the opportunity to be part of a reading group that read a cross-disciplinary work. This work intended to integrate psychology, philosophy, and theology under theological anthropology. I noticed that this work like many other works of this kind not only misrepresented dualism but confused ontology with function. In the area of philosophy of mind, the dualist emphasizes the radical difference between mind and matter. Dualists commonly argue for the distinction of mind […]
I began writing this blog post over week ago, and I had no idea that it would be appearing after yet another school shooting. Once again, we hear the refrain of Christian political inaction: “Thoughts and Prayers.” The repetition of it all lulls us back to sleep. “This is America.” And in America, complacency is King. Shortly after the Parkland shooting, I wrote a post about how empty and trite the phrase “Thoughts and Prayers” […]
Tina Fey once wrote that the worst question you can ask a mother has nothing to do about their age or their weight. (I respectfully disagree. As a younger, more clueless man, I once asked a woman when the baby was due. She slapped my arm and informed me her baby was already three-months old. Lesson learned. Today, a woman can be visibly 8-months pregnant, wearing an “arriving soon” t-shirt with arrows pointing to the […]
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