Urban Faith Roundup Provides a Prayer Request List

In an article titled “Riots, Slave States, and Kool-Aid: Race Talk After the Election,” the website offers a review of some of the responses to the re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.  May the Lord grant us peace and understanding during this time of seeming economic uncertainty and political disappointment, remembering that God’s […]

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ARC’s Facing Race Conference in Baltimore

The Applied Research Center is hosting the 2012 Facing Race Conference in Baltimore, Maryland from November 15-17, 2012.  “Facing Race is a conference like no other– it is the largest national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists, and activists on racial justice. Attendees share their knowledge on advocating for racial justice in all walks […]

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Perspective

What is race doing with our lives?  What is race doing to our lives?  What is race doing for our lives?  What are its benefits, the reasons that we continue to employ it, to keep it, to depend on it? What have we done with our lives, to our lives and to the lives of […]

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We are responsible for the racist

“…I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.  Something in the man knows– must know– that what he is doing is evil; but in order to accept the knowledge the man would have to change.  What is ghastly and really almost hopeless in our racial situation now is that the crimes […]

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How Prayer Answers the Question of the Meaning of Life

In a chapter titled “The Discipline of Meditation- Prayer” from James Earl Massey’s Spiritual Disciplines: A Believer’s Openings to the Grace of God, we learn that “the deepest meanings of selfhood are realized when a person is with God.  The self reaches its highest expression when one prays.  Realized order marks the path of an individual who […]

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