Archives: June 2009

“Meaning is an affair of consciousness not of words” (Hirsch, Validity of Interpretation, 4).

I just finished Thabiti Anyabwile’s book, The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity. Worth reading. Very good book.

“Three decades after Emancipation, African Americans led the charge to reassert…the ongoing activity of the Holy Spirit” (Thabiti Anyabwile).

I didn’t realize that teaching my two year old how to eat a sucker would come with parent duty. But, I’m glad that it does.

Greek for the day: ἅπας, ασα, αν, used 34 times, means “all whole; everybody, everything [pl.]“

I hope that in 200 years this era of Christianity is not defined by our blog comments.

“I know that I have been dug up and made alive and my soul made satisfied,” testimony of a converted slave (Thabiti Anyabwile).

“Ole Satan is a busy ole man/ He roll stones in my way; Mass’[ter sic] Jesus is my bosom friend/ He roll ‘em out o’ my way.”

To whom does one pray from the bowels of a slave ship? To the gods of Africa? To the gods of the master of the slave vessels?”, H. Long