My Thoughts

Reflections And Insights From The Woke Rev. JDM 

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?

The Fourth of July 2024 has come and gone. The national holiday celebrating the founding of America’s declaration of her independence (freedom, liberation) from British rule in 1776 was lackluster for me this year. My Dad loved the Fourth of July. During my childhood, he would gather family and friends

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Stay Awake

Stay Awake Sermon December 3, 2023 The Historic New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Detroit, MI Advent is a time of expectation, looking for the coming or arrival of something or someone special or important. In the church, we celebrate the Advent season expecting and preparing for the arrival and

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An Open Letter To Ben Carson

“Perhaps no other word of the moment is so under attack as ‘woke,’ a word born as a simple yet powerful way of saying: ‘Be aware of and alert to how racism is systemic and pervasive and suffuses American life. Wake up from the slumber of ignorance and passive acceptance.”

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Psalm 109 – An Imprecatory Psalm and a Counter-Evil Prayer

Wicked and deceitful people continue to surround us with their lies, suffocating us with their hatred, smothering us with systemic racism, xenophobia, hegemony, and homophobia. They attack us without cause, relegating us to the balconies of society through systems they devised intending to keep a knee on our neck, deny

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