Sublime

“More than three hundred years ago your forefathers were taken from the western coast of Africa as slaves. The people who dealt in the slave traffic were Christians. One of your famous Christian hymn writers, Sir John Newton, made his money from the sale of slaves to the New World. He is the man who wrote ‘How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds’ and

telegraphically.

His concern was to state the primacy of faith in relation to reason on matters of theological discourse. We have another concern and thus must rephrase that question in the light of our cultural history, asking: “What has Africa to do with Jerusalem, and what difference does Jesus make for African people oppressed in North America?” As Gerard

After all, Mukoma Byron had been an almost-perfect seed and the Western soil was ideal, rich, and nurturing. How, then, could such an experiment yield such rotten fruit? It was like a perfect recipe, full of the finest ingredients, that when prepared bears a poisonous repast.

mien,

Erskine Hawkins

In the midst of this psychological climate Jesus began his teaching and his ministry.

Maybe Ma was never coming home.