<![CDATA[ Editor’s Note: This is the written draft of a sermon that I delivered at Kaleo Covenant Church. The alternate title I considered using was: “‘Who’” & ‘What’: When To Use Which, How & Why.” To set the mood, I walked out to one of my favorite songs, which I reference later in my introduction.…

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<![CDATA[If I had my druthers*, here's what I'd do. I'd hire Kevin Spacey and the production crew behind House of Cards to shoot a public service announcement. It would look something like this.   *druthers, by the way, is shorthand for “if any of my creative projects go massively huge and I suddenly have the means…

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<![CDATA[So here is the thing. For many reasons, I’m not the best person to be talking about this. Yet, I’m a blogger. So when it comes to spilling out my commentary on issues du jour, I haven’t let lack of qualification stop me before.I’m not a parent yet. I do plan to be one, though…

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<![CDATA[ So I see a question posed in the RSS reader of my Gmail, the headline of a CNN story on transracial adoption. This being such a complicated issue, fraught with nuance and complexity… I will answer it with short, pithy phrases: Do Whites need training before parenting Black children? In one word? YES. In…

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