Stephen J. Matlock's Blog, page 9

REVIEW: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

These are the stories of Black women living lives as Black women with no one else as their betters, let alone their equals.

Which Way?

Your faith is about your personal relationship with your values, and it should not matter in the slightest whether anyone knows why you behave as you do when you behave better because of your faith.

The White Voice in Black Conversations

There seems always to be that moment when the white participant says something that is simply too much to handle.

REVIEW: Punch Me Up to the Gods

We learn, slowly, how to gather the people around us who will care for us and who will give us some space in their own lives.

PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS: A Review

We learn, slowly, how to gather the people around us who will care for us and who will give us some space in their own lives.

Beliefs and Behaviors

The Jesus of the texts doesn't encourage harm for others—and the opponents of health protocols aren't demonstrating the person of the texts.

Shadows on the Wall

CRT is about systems, not individuals. Systems are developed as shortcuts for lengthy processes so that we don’t spend all our time trying to figure out how to hand multiple situations and not have disparate outcomes.

REVIEW: Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend

I’ve read many books this year, some of them similar to his in that they are life stories. This is the first one that I finished where I wanted to have more.

Hard Questions, Hard Answers

Jesus gets to the heart of the matter, which is simply you can’t follow Jesus if you have more important things than Jesus.

Real but Imaginary Threats

Much ink will be spilled in the next few months or even years about the topic of Critical Race Theory (CRT), both by those who think they support it and those who think they oppose it