Month: March 2008

Learning About Trinity

Even if you have no problem with Barack Obama and his associations with his south Chicago church, you should educate yourself about the history of black Christianity, including (especially in Chicago) it’s efforts to...

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Al-Sadr Does the Christian Thing

It was mighty Christian of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr to tell his Mahdi Army to stop fighting in Basra.  I’m afraid I would have taken a far more Old Testament approach to the recent violence in Iraq....

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Gangsta Rap Has Nothing to Do With It

From the abstract of Darby Southgate’s Gangsta Rap: Cultural Capital, Community Cohesion and Political Resistance – Meaning Making in Music Production. There exists a dialectic response due to the exploitation of...

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