Category: Religion and Faith

Time for Jeremiah Wright T.V. to come to an end

Time for Jeremiah Wright T.V. to come to an end

On Friday, Dr. Jeremiah Wright gave an insightful interview with Bill Moyers that I thought helped to better explain the basis for some of the “controversial” comments that he made which had been taken out of context. Sunday night, CNN gave Dr. Wright a forum to express himself uncut and...

A Brief for Whitey by Pat Buchanan

A Brief for Whitey by Pat Buchanan

A Brief for Whitey – HumanEvents.com   By Patrick Buchanan Posted: 03/21/2008   How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America...

A day of Jeremiah Wright: In Dallas church this morning, Detroit NAACP Banquet Sunday evening

A day of Jeremiah Wright: In Dallas church this morning, Detroit NAACP Banquet Sunday evening

I guess it’s because I have seen Dr. Jeremiah Wright preach so eloquently for so long, I just don’t totally see the need for the media circus that took place today. As a member of Friendship-West Baptist Church the last ten years, I’ve heard my fair share of what some...

Faith Formula Human Services Corporation will host its Third Annual Faith Summit on Poverty on Friday

Faith Formula Human Services Corporation will host its Third Annual Faith Summit on Poverty on Friday

Land Development, Homeownership, Juvenile Justice System, Substance Abuse and the Return of New Orleanians on Summit Platform Dallas, TX – April 18, 2008 – Faith Formula Human Services is poised to keep the focus on poverty conditions in America. To this end, United States Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Dr....

More on Dr. Jeremiah Wright, black preachers in Dallas Morning News

More on Dr. Jeremiah Wright, black preachers in Dallas Morning News

The Metro section seemed like an odd place or Jeffrey Weiss’ article regarding Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, but I’m guessing he was moved by his experience at the Black Church Summit a couple of weeks ago. See Weiss’ article Obama pastor’s sermons highlight racial divide. There’s not much new here,...

Interesting comment left on Dallas South

Interesting comment left on Dallas South

This speaks for itself. 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963,...

“A World of Women for World Peace Conference” hosted this weekend by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

“A World of Women for World Peace Conference” hosted this weekend by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

From the office of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. Dear Friend, I firmly believe that the burden of peacemaking and peace building cannot be left to one institution, gender or political party. It must be a shared responsibility that encompasses all, regardless of race, class, gender and religion. I began A...

40th Anniversary of “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech

40th Anniversary of “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech

Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech. The speech was delivered at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple Church of God in Memphis, Tennessee. It would turn out to be his last, as Dr. King was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel the...

CNN’s Black In America series looks at assassination; also King’s radical push for new America

CNN’s Black In America series looks at assassination; also King’s radical push for new America

Most of us realize, as his grave site would attest, that Dr. Martin Luther King died 40 years ago at the hands of an assassin’s bullet.  Yet a review of historical accounts may lead one to believe that Dr. King died in 1963. Rare do we see much about the...

Friendship-West has a full day:Mayor Tom Leppert, Black Marriage Day, Groundbreaking for Phase II

Friendship-West has a full day:Mayor Tom Leppert, Black Marriage Day, Groundbreaking for Phase II

This past Sunday was a busy one for Friendship-West Baptist Church. I’m still trying to figure out how we fit so much into each service yesterday. First Dr. Haynes acknowledged some guests from the Brite Divinity School Black Church Summit. There was a banquet held during the summit to honor...