“Both sides get it wrong” is a deflection. — This post is based on the article posted by Jemar Tisby — “Justice Takes Sides”. I recommend that you read that article first, and more strongly recommend that you follow and read Dr. Tisby’s Substack. Let’s suppose you have one side that is oppressing, and another side that is oppressed. …

I am the most fortunate of humans — Lordy. Eighteen months since I started learning Haitian Creole. I have been extraordinarily blessed/fortunate/lucky to have had just the right sources at the right time in the journey, from Duolingo ( Lanfe Douwolingo!) as the first steps to get a basic comprehension of simple grammar, spelling, and pronunciation, to several…

Sometimes we need to be shaken from familiarity — I’ve been a peripatetic Jesus-follower for some time now. (Last I checked, about five decades.) I’m not anyone who can claim sainthood; I think the evidence shows far more instances of failure than anything else, but still, I continue. And in those decades of following Jesus, I’ve listened to uncountable…

The next steps on my language journey — resources! — So I’ve gone from the early stages of learning Haitian Creole where I was spending a lot of time looking for resources while I was practicing my lessons to plunging into the deep end of the pool. I now have an embarrassment of riches, as they say. …

Time for some new stuff — It’s been a while since I last updated what I’m doing as I’ve been on the journey to learn Haitian Creole. I started in March of 2022, just after Duolingo released its course in Haitian Creole, and after a month of daily practice I realized that I was just learning…

Thank you for that very thoughtful response. Indeed, no one is guaranteed success in building the kin-dom of the Beloved Community. But we are give charge to love and to heal, to free and to heal, to embrace the despised and to love the unloved & unlovable. So that is what we are give cause to do.

The impulse to “help” people you see as needing your “help” can be strong — Haiti has fascinated people for more than 200 years. As the first Black republic-and as the first Black nation to throw off the chains of European enslavement-it has represented self-achievement and self-dignity to the nations of the world who have groaned under the boot of colonialism. It’s a fact of…

Musings while in mourning — Y’know, I’ve been trying to be a Christian for some 50 or so years now. I’ve done the Bible school/college stuff. I’ve done the preaching and teaching and evangelizing. I’ve done mission work in the States and some mission work outside the States. …

It’s more than speeches or memes — Politicians do what they do because they don’t fear the consequences. They’re protected by the length of their term, the forgetfulness of people, the lack of organization by their political opponents, and the steadfast support of those who grease their way into power-and I’m not talking about voters; I’m talking…