Category Archives: Pastor’s Pen

“Teaching, Preaching and Reaching For Christ”

PRAYING FOR AND DEMANDING JUSTICE ​James Baldwin shared in 1961, “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you.” ​Although shared in 1961, many of…

The Pastor’s Pen: ​​ ​​ PRAYING FOR AND DEMANDING JUSTICE ​In January of this year, the Urban Center–Milwaukee convened an institute titled Proclaim: Your Life Speaks – Our Lives Speak. As a scriptural focus for the institute, God revealed to Dr. Trinette McCray a passage of scripture that was appropriate to celebrate the life of…

PRAYING FOR AND DEMANDING JUSTICE ​While we are still attempting to make sense of the senseless murder of Ahmaud Arbery, it was revealed that Breonna Taylor was murdered in her house in Louisville, Kentucky by police officers in the early morning of March 13, 2020. ​Breonna was an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) who worked at…

PRAYING FOR AND DEMANDING JUSTICE On February 23rd, at 1:00 p.m., Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging in Brunswick, Georgia when he was confronted by two white men in a pickup truck who were supposedly chasing a Black man who was supposedly breaking into houses. I say, “Supposedly” because there was no evidence that Ahmaud had…