During a keynote in Holland, MI, last month, I made a passing comment about the Nones and the Dones—”the religiously unaffiliated and the religiously exhausted.” A remarkable article I read this week speaks to what “being the Church” means from the perspective of the Dones. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a psychologist, theologian, professor, and author […]
Photo: Responding to the Cruciform Life
The first presentation is complete! This afternoon, I responded to Greg Boyd’s treatment of Christian discipleship as the call to live cruciform, in the form of the cross. Boyd has argued that Christians have a responsibility to shape their lives in terms of self-sacrifice. Grounded in Black history and theologies, I suggested that this teaching […]
Interview: Insights from an Adventist communicator
Alita Byrd interviewed me on the Adventist Forum/Spectrum Magazine blog about my upcoming presentation at the 2016 Spectrum conference. We covered quite a bit of ground: the work I do with churches, my thoughts on the denomination’s near future, as well as the recurring question about North American Adventism’s racially separated conferences. ‘For God so loved the world’ […]
Comfort food
I ate a quarter of a large Ledo’s olive pizza this morning. For breakfast. It was a meal with all the right pieces: carbohydrate, protein, vegetables. I don’t always eat pizza for breakfast, but when I do, I wolf down a quarter of it, and then I tell myself it’s a meal with all the right pieces. […]
All Our Euphemisms Are Like Filthy Rags
Note: This article features Anansi, the Akan spider-man. And because I love you, it includes no images of actual spiders. —KM A lot of people I know skipped church last weekend. A lot of Black people I know skipped church last weekend. A sprinkling of days after a young White racist slaughtered nine praying Black people in the oldest African Methodist […]
An Affirmation: Ann Roda-Hernandez
I posted this note earlier today in a closed discussion group for people who support women in ministry and promote their full affirmation in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. I’m re-posting it outside the group so that I can share it with the person I wrote about. Thank you, Ann, for your encouragement, rooted-ness, patience, and service. […]
