Thandie Newton and Otherness as a Blessing

The other day I was watching the Pursuit of Happyness and I was struck by Thandie Newton’s portrayal of Christopher Gardner’s(Will Smith) wife. She really was mean. Really mean and hopeless. And not only that but I discovered that she was not African American but British. She definitely portrayed her character well. There was an accent but [...]

Scapegoating….

Scapegoating is on the rise these days. I believe we all have a need to find someone or something to blame. This is not anything new. It has been done to my people for years. Once we were emancipated from slavery, the embittered Southern poor blamed African Americans for all of their problems and they [...]

Ten years ago in Whittier….

Ten years ago I experienced something that changed my life. Right about this time I would have been reeling from it and trying to process what I had just experienced. I had just returned from my first short term mission trip. Before this trip I had never been out of the country and only a [...]