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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 [...]
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 [...]
I ain’t a Poet But I Slam a Bit || Spoken Word
Follow @Jah_Bread Fully dressed in cassock and collar, looking like Morpheus I traveled into what some mainstreamers would call the underworld to proclaim the Gospel by means of Spoken Word poetry. You could sense the shock. Matter of fact, the shock was made clear. Several times I was asked: “is that (i.e. cassock) real?” And, [...]
Being an Accidental Racist is No Excuse
Follow @Jah_Bread LL Cool J may indeed be hard as hell, but this is a battle for which he clearly didn’t prepare. He rocked the bells of my brain on his verse in Brad Paisley’s new song Accidental Racist. I’m saying though…really: “accidental racist?” The name alone is ludicrous. If someone was accidentally being racist [...]
Good Friday Bypass: Destination Easter!
Follow @Jah_Bread There’s a reason they call the forty days preceding Christ’s Crucifixion “Great Lent.” There’s a reason they call the period from Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem to His victorious death on the Cross “the Passion.” It is part of the triumvirate of Christian seasons which make possible our redemption. Yet, Great Lent and [...]
