Obama, Evangelicals, Coded Prejudice

Lots of energetic conversations happening across the blogosphere. I’m too busy to blog about them with any manner of cogency, but allow me to throw out a few items that I would expound on if I had the time.
The Obama vs. Dobson Bible Controversy. My friend Josh Canada has an informative post about this over at his [...]

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I’ve Been Hit!

My friend Caryn Rivadeneira, who’s currently the managing editor for Christianity Today’s GiftedforLeadership.com, recently tagged me. I usually try to avoid the whole meme thing, but Caryn is such a nice person—and she was memed/tagged (see, I don’t even know what to call it) by another great guy, Al Hsu from over at IVP—so I’ll [...]

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Better Late Than Whenever

As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been blogging that much lately—too busy! And I probably shouldn’t be blogging now, but I wanted to call your attention to a few items of interest I’ve run across recently. Some of them are slightly aged but still worthwhile.

“Racial Shift in a Progressive City Spurs Talks.” A case study of [...]

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Exposing Prejudice or Peddling Racism?

Anyone watch the NBC reality show Last Comic Standing? I don’t, but I was checking out the blog Racialicious yesterday and ran across this post about a Chicago comedian named Esther Ku who recently appeared on the show. The post’s headline suggests that Ku is the Korean-American Sarah Silverman. (Silverman, for those who don’t know, is a white [...]

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Stuff White People Like

In the comments to a previous post, Tyson Aschliman reminded me about Christine Scheller’s suggestion that I check out the new blog Stuff White People Like. I meant to reply to her on that awhile back but got distracted. I’m sorry, Christine.
I had heard about Stuff White People Like (SWPL) earlier this year through TheRoot.com and another interesting [...]

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Ten and Some Change

Here’s the deal: Sister Erika Haub over at The Margins tagged me the other day. It’s an honor to be included on her list of “excellent or subversive” blogs—though I’m not sure which category I fall under. I usually run the other way on stuff like this, but I decided this could be an excuse [...]

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Coming Soon: UrbanFaith.com

Okay, here’s a shameless plug for one of the projects I’ve been working on in my new job at Urban Ministries, Inc. The project is a new blog and online community for those interested in stuff related to urban ministry, racial reconciliation, contemporary culture, and more. The name of the site is UrbanFaith.com, and we [...]

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Spiritual Politics

Here’s a great blog for those of you interested in the intersection of faith and politics as it relates to this current presidential campaign. It’s produced by various religion, politics, and media scholars and is based at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. As usual, I’m not suggesting you’ll agree with all of their perspectives, but [...]

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Rudy, Condi, and The Root

While in L.A. last week for Hollywood Presbyterian’s MLK celebration, I had the added blessing of seeing my friend Rudy Carrasco, whose Harambee Christian Family Center was the beneficiary of a special offering taken up that evening. Anyhow, I really like this recent post about Condoleezza Rice found over at Rudy’s blog.
And while I’m on [...]

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Feels Like the First Time

Welcome to my blog. This is my first post. The Bears beat Seattle earlier today (barely), so all is calm in Chi-Town tonight.
In the days to come, I hope this blog can become a place for honest conversations about faith, life, and whatever is happening in the world. Oh, yes! I’ll probably want to chat [...]

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