Scripture says remarkably little about ethnic distinction. That silence tells us more about "black history" than a thousand February speeches ever could.
Ancient heresy meets modern firearms. When a culture teaches its children the body is a lie, some of them eventually believe it about other bodies too.
Black history's real heroes weren't agitators demanding recognition. They were builders — inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs — who earned it.
The Afrocentric myth says you're descended from African royalty. The Gospel says you're made in GOD's image. Only one grants real dignity.
Black History Month has become America's secular Lent—a month of imposed penance without absolution. The gospel offers actual reconciliation instead.
Morgan Freeman asked why black history gets the shortest month. His critique exposes how February perpetuates the very otherness it claims to remedy.
The ghetto promises care while delivering containment—whether housing projects, Black History Month, or black theology. True honor integrates; it doesn't segregate.
Slavery wasn't a white invention—it's human depravity. From African kingdoms to modern victimhood, the chains have changed but bondage remains.
The freedmen who endured slavery focused on building, not demanding reparations. Their descendants do the opposite. What changed?
GOD draws straight lines with crooked sticks. Celebrate the faithful forgotten: Washington, Reeves, Taylor, and the unnamed multitude who built lasting legacies.
Martin Luther King Jr. denied the virgin birth, bodily resurrection, and deity of Christ. Can we call him "Reverend" when he rejected the very Gospel itself?
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society promised to help struggling families. Sixty years later, the data tells a different story. High hopes, fractured families.
MLK Day
When conservatives canonize flawed heroes for racial credibility, who wins? A theological and moral reckoning with MLK's disqualifying failures.
Ethnic Gnosticism
Voddie Baucham's notion of ethnic gnosticism exposes the heresy of race-based epistemology. The Gospel offers unity in Christ over identity politics.
Reformed theology
Can truth emerge from unreliable sources? Exploring the genetic fallacy, biblical examples, and the utility of broken clocks and crooked sticks.
Political Theology
A Christian reflection on the temptation to weaponize state power against political enemies—and why principled restraint is harder than it looks.
Soteriology
Minneapolis welfare fraud protests reveal a deeper question: What if we got the justice we actually deserve? The gospel's cosmic unfairness explained.
New Year's Resolutions
Forget gym memberships. This New Year's resolution costs nothing: follow a few people on TikTok who actually think. Here's my current rotation.
Providence
After 40 years of radio silence, my mother reunited with her Italian sister via WhatsApp. Not a miracle—Providence using ordinary means for divine ends.
Incarnation
Psalm 85:10 reveals the Incarnation's impossible math: how God's righteousness and mercy meet in Christ. Not sentiment but surgical precision.
St. Stephen
Why does St. Stephen's martyrdom follow Christmas? The Church calendar reveals Christianity's non-sentimental core: Christ came to transform, not comfort.
Incarnation
The day after Christmas, what remains when the decorations come down? A truth claim that stands or falls on one historical fact: God became flesh. Here's why that matters.
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