Getty Images   The real tribute in the recent moment of Michael B. Jordan publicly honoring his mother is not simply about a successful actor thanking his parent. The deeper tribute is to Black motherhood itself a form of leadership that nurtures, orders, disciplines, and champions excellence. Michael B. Jordan’s success does not belong to him alone. It stands within a long and global tradition of Black mothers who hold families together, who stretch resources, who insist on

image Michael Hammets This week has unfolded as yet another collision of competing interpretations of the New Testament and, more precisely, a public lesson in how Christians believe Scripture authorizes behavior. I deliberately distinguish  Christians from  followers of Jesus , because the gap between the two has become increasingly stark. I recall my mentor,  Peter J. Lee , Bishop, once naming the fault line with clarity:  it is either law and order, or peace and justice .

The World Is a Circle (lyrics Burt Bacharach and Hal David) “The world is a circle without a beginning,and nobody knows where it really ends…” Those words have lived inside me for more than fifty years. The song was written in 1973 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the film  Lost Horizon . I was ten years old then too young to remember the movie, too young perhaps to grasp its metaphysics but not too young to remember the song. I remember every lyric. I remember the melody

image: UX Gun Happy New Year, Is this who we are as a country? These are my limited observations as I listened to the press conference and followed the breaking news on Venezuela. From within my Motherist sensibility, a deep spiritual dread surfaced. I heard our leaderhip extol military dominance, power framed as righteousness, force as legitmacy, and killing as resolution. The logic was clear:might makes right. The experience felt disturbingly similar to watching a militar

Xfinity Well, it is out Wicked: For Good, Part II of the Wicked film series and yes, I have seen it. In a theater filled almost entirely with Black women, there was literally one man present, seated with his wife in the last row. And on premiere night, another theater filled up as well. Black women showed up $17 million in sales on opening day and projections surpassing $85 million by weekend’s end. If you follow my blog, you may remember my 2024 reflections, “Gravity I” and

Image Forbes It’s been two weeks since I last posted and I will begin with the beginning paragraph of my original post for context. This...