Respect All Mothers In Love, Praise and Honor.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Every culture, religion, ethnicity, and shade of human existence praises mothers. Don’t get it twisted Mothers Day is every day globally.  “Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” Ephesians 6:2, 3 NKJV The meaning... [Read more...]

For The Love of God, Please Leave the Black Church Alone!

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Quick story.  The other day I became short of breath. My heart began to beat erratically, it sounded kind of like when you put a shoe in a clothes drier. Clumpity, clump clump.  Soon after my left arm felt like I had been laying on it all night, prickly and tingly, as if I had a porcupine living under my skin.  Uh oh, I was... [Read more...]

Christian; Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “IF YE WERE ABRAHAM’S CHILDREN, YE WOULD DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM” Every since I wrote the column “Crabs in a Barrel,” the gross hypocrisy of South Carolina State Senator, Rev. Darrell Jackson, has lingered with me. In that column I describe how the Black, South Carolina State Senator, who was also... [Read more...]

The State of the Black Church.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “For a country that’s so religious it lacks so much compassion”-Bill Maher. It was a regular Sunday morning when I found myself watching TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin and he was interviewing Bishop T.D. Jakes about a program called “TORI” where he was helping ex-cons get their lives back on track which... [Read more...]

What Color Was Jesus The Christ.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) The most common answer, “He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show him in movies and paintings. He was darker than that, like the people who live in North Africa today.” However, the average American today looks nothing like the average American 500 years ago when Columbus arrived. So why expect the North Africans of... [Read more...]

Don’t Let Intolerance Rob Us of Our True Freedom.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Thus far I have heard so many variations for and against the institution of same sex marriage, and have logically come to the foregoing realization that America has greatly changed.  Be it for the good or the bad that is where many of us will part company.  As logical as the argument may be as to why same-sex marriage should... [Read more...]

Five Lessons to Get Your Answer!

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) ”I hate not knowing,” a friend complained as she tried to figure out some steps to take personally and professionally. “I’m used to having a game plan, but right now I feel stuck because I honestly don’t know what the right answer is. I want to plan the next stage of my life – and somehow,... [Read more...]

ATL Bishop Eddie Long Gets Sued For Serious Financial Deception.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has been sued for allegedly encouraging his congregants to enter into a Ponzi scheme.   The documents were filed in DeKalb County about three weeks ago, and hold Bishop Long accountable for bringing Ephren Taylor into the church to encourage members to invest in his... [Read more...]

God; The Blind Faith Of Organized Religion.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “If God knows all, and he knows a billion years before Billy is born that Billy is going to end up in Hell, is there anything Billy can do in life to make God wrong? The above question is designed to point out two things – first, it points out that much of the religious doctrine that we’ve been taught is a myth... [Read more...]

A Big Secret Revealed (for Musicians).

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) I have quite the Christmas gift for all musicians, as we all close out the year.  And you’ll find that it works even better for Kwanzaa… I am about to reveal a secret nearly as old as time itself (fellow Bible readers will find it hinted at all the way back in Genesis 4:21).  I am about to reveal what has made the... [Read more...]

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