Supernatural Gratitude It was extremely late when the hospital staff fell quiet. The night seemed to pass without a major incident. Wide-eyes, stared out at the innocuous city as it slept quietly. Who was out there asleep? Who was out … Continue reading A Song In The Night
B-More “Pigeons” From Toronto and New York, to London and Venice, and onto Cape Town and Mumbai, pigeons are nearly omnipresent in many of the world’s urban centers. However, crows are the pigeons of Baltimore and surrounding areas. When you … Continue reading My Non-Linear Crow’s Flight of Theopoetics
John 14:6 New International Version 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. In this current climate, we seem to see more and more people confused by what qualifies as TRUTH. It … Continue reading One Degree at a Time
As autumn’s chill whispers closer, September arrives, painting the world in shorter days and longer shadows. The landscape begins its seasonal transformation, shedding its vibrant hues. Yet, September also holds a profound metaphor: the longer we hover around the edges … Continue reading Stop Circling The Truth
Bernie Madoff became a sacrificial lamb because he violated the rules and took advantage of the untouchables: wealthy, “white,” male, landowners. Every now and then, they may drop one into the system to give the appearance of justice and no … Continue reading The Game
No society simply survives a storm. Every society reconstructs. The only question is what it reconstructs. Some rebuild institutions while leaving injustice intact. Others restore public order while preserving the assumptions that fractured it in the first place. Still others … Continue reading Every Reconstruction Builds a Moral World
“Let us rise up and build.”Nehemiah 2:18, KJV Dear Reader, I am a native of Wilmington, North Carolina. My family and I are what I call geographical ancestors of 1898. We are not descendants looking back at a distant place. … Continue reading After the Fire, What Do We Build? Wilmington, 1898, the Voting Rights Act, and the Unfinished Work of Reconstruction
We focused on the silent scream of the unborn, even as we daily ignored the cries of the poor and oppressed, all while our politics and religion, our propaganda, history and self-interest inoculated, absolutely inoculated us, from hearing the cries of God’s … Continue reading White Confession for a Sunday Morning
I never dreamed that vacationing out of the country is not only a luxury, but a necessary mental health break to reset my mind from the dark and depressing political state that our country is in right now. It appears … Continue reading August 2026 Theme: Now What?!?
