There Will Be Hurdles

Many persons celebrated the Labor Day weekend with backyard barbecues, Labor Day shopping, evening concerts and… hair appointments.  This coming weekend, I will serve as one of the guest speakers for Sharon Bible Fellowship’s women’s retreat and we will be traveling to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to share in the theme “Fit for the Master’s Use” (II Timothy 2.21).  I […]

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Sometimes, I feel like a motherless child

I served as the guest preacher at Village Baptist Church in Bowie, Maryland this morning. The pastor, Dr. Bruce Salmon, graciously provided me the opportunity to proclaim the message of Christ, a message that I can not share often enough. Each time that I share the good news of Jesus Christ, I get excited as […]

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In the beginning was…

I am often amazed at how quickly persons will rise to defend race as if I have offended a family member, a childhood friend or perhaps even a spouse when I question the authenticity of the relationship or the intentions of race for their life.  They take a sense of ownership in race, which ultimately […]

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Two

Yesterday, I discussed Du Bois’ concept of double- consciousness, this sense of two- ness that is created in the life of one who defines herself or himself as an American Negro, a Black American, an African American or any identity that is a combination of both country and color.  The identities do not support one another and can be mutually exclusive as one […]

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Double Consciousness as Double- Mindedness

“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” ~ James 1.8, KJV “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels […]

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