(ThyBlackMan.com) There is plenty of confusion within Christianity among denominations and communities. In the black community church attendance for young adults is not the best. Many are looking at the church as a cesspool of drama that take more than it gives. Pastors have been under scrutiny for everything from mishandling ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the week, my time is normally very hectic – from the time I get up until the time I sit at the end of my day. I literally work before and after work; so, some weekends, all I do is sleep like a new born baby trying to rejuvenate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Make no mistake about it. The news from California is very big and very positive. As reported in the LA Times, “California legislator shelves bill to ban paid ‘gay conversion therapy’ for adults.” In a somewhat unprecedented move in the history of gay activism, Assemblyman Evan Low, himself gay, has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was raised to be a Christian, but I never go to church, because even as a kid I couldn’t buy into talkin’ snakes. I wanted to believe it, because I was taught that if I didn’t the Bogey Man was gonna get me, but try as I might, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dealing with substance abuse is a terror, not only for the person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, it represents a social problem that affects the entire community. This is the main reason why people seek professional help in order to free themselves from the clutches of addiction. However, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the fifth month (Av), and the ninth day of that month, in about the year 576 BC, the first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. As Nebuchadnezzar and his army was besieging Jerusalem, The prophet Jeremiah and several priests took the sacred artifacts from the Holy of Holies in the Temple, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People often say “I’m not religious, I am spiritual”. Just what does that mean? Why are a growing number of people so loathe to identify with religion to the deference of spirituality? The Pew Research Center reports a 3% drop in the number of people who attend religious services at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2008, author and fit pro W. Eric Croomes made the decision to improve his health. At that point he was almost 200 pounds – which at five-feet and nine inches and in his forties – wasn’t healthy. Croomes made a plan and stuck with it; watching with utter amazement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In Lagos, Nigeria, thousands of people arrive at what is known in the community as the “Healing School of Christ Embassy” to see a man known as Pastor Chris or Reverand Dr. Chris Oyakhilome. Reverend Dr. Chris Oyakhilome is the President of Believers’ LoveWorld Inc. and of Christ Embassy. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible has been translated, retranslated, interpreted, and somewhere along the way, we have seen the evolvement of many verses that are misunderstood or out rightly misinterpreted. Getting biblical stories and scriptures wrong may not appear very important, but it could become very dangerous. The danger of misinterpreting scripture is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been in ministry for some twenty-plus years. Like most African Americans, I was nurtured in the womb of the black religious experience. There is no other in institution in a black America that is so wedded to the notion of God and health than the black church. Each ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Faith and prayer have been the backbone of the African American community since we came upon these shores. We have counted on our faith leaders (the roll call would include Revs. Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, James Walker Hood, Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Tee Walker, Jesse L. Jackson, William Barber, ...