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Subordination and #AltonSterling

I was about halfway through another post talking about theology and the Trinity and why claims for the “eternal subordination of Son” makes for bad theology. And then I saw the new about #AltonSterling, another black man shot by white police. And so I wrote this instead, because I couldn’t finish the other post…(it is […]

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Grieving For Ferguson and Beyond

I’m in information overload about Ferguson right now. I can’t sort out my thoughts, which is rare, but I have an overriding feeling: GRIEF

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Deeper Than We Thought (3): Drug War Myths

  Post One and Two (This just happened: While writing this post on The New Jim Crow at a coffee shop an African American man asks me about the book and then tells me that he advised his son NOT to bring his car to college because the dad was worried his son would be arrested in […]

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Deeper than We Thought (1): Our Society’s Sin

The Journey of Redemption  I’ve found in my journey of redemption that I don’t necessary sin egregiously in every category. Rather I’ve found I often keep struggling with the same two or three sins that seem to go all the way down to my core. Every time I think I’m done with that sin God will gently […]

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Other-than the “Ice Bucket Challenge”

So on Sunday I was finally tagged with an “Ice Bucket Challenge”. But on Saturday I came across this video by actor Orlando Jones, who “thinks there’s one “disease” that needs more awareness.  It’s one “disease” that happens to dispropotionately affect black people” (via Root, read the entire artcile here).   You can see him interviewed about […]