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Relationships 103: Wanna Be Loved?
Follow @Jah_Bread If he would just learn to… If she would just understand… And, so begins the process of coming to love the “one that could be.” Who is the one that could be? Well, that’s the person you believe your significant other could be if only (fill in the blank). If only…if only…if only. [...]
The Pain of a Single Dad on Mother’s Day
Follow @Jah_Bread Reading all the posts about Mother’s Day on Facebook and Twitter combined with listening to Burning Spear to prepare me for church this morning, made me think of this song by Sizzla: Thank You Momma. This was and is my favorite song for mothers. When I had my hiphop radio show on WVUD [...]
Relationships 102: Are You Equally Yoked?
Follow @Jah_Bread If how you approach the box is foundational for the individual in relationships, being equally yoked is the foundation for a couple in relationships. In 2 Corinthians 6:14, St. Paul advises us to “not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.” Now the simple interpretation of this passage tells us to not associate with [...]
Race and Power in Coming to God
Follow @Jah_Bread The story of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, is always fascinating to me. For the mother of Solomon’s first-born son to be an African woman is a powerful thing. (Solomon himself was half African, as his mother Bath-sheba was a woman of the same region from whence Makeda came.) Yet, there are many [...]
The White Man’s New Burden
Follow @Jah_Bread This poem was written as a century-plus later response to Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 original “White Man’s Burden.” Kipling’s poem was an ode to imperialism and formed the justification for the Western ideology of policing the world. In light of our present realities of global conflict, I offered this re-interpretation. Take [...]
