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Monday, January 31st, 2005Saturday evening I was bouncing back and forth between the Michael Jackson special (see post above) on VH1 and a PBS documentary called “Do You Speak American?” The documentary explored American dialects from Boston to El Paso and Nashville to LA and asked fundamental questions about language, identity, and cultural norms and expectations. On Sunday [...]
“This is a nontraditional course.”
Thursday, January 27th, 2005So begins the course description for the Urban Community Development class I’m teaching this semester at Alliance Theological Seminary. It continues: “Equal parts graduate seminar, academic laboratory, and clinical practicum, our overriding goal will be to understand and apply strategic leadership principles in a real-world, urban community development context. While exploring the evolution of community [...]
Will the Real Men Please Stand Up?
Monday, January 17th, 2005My last shout-out of the evening in honor of MLK comes from the son of a civil rights radical, who ironically suffered a similar fate as Dr. King (although for apparently different reasons). The late Tupac Shakur, son of Afeni Shakur of the Black Panther Party, grew up never knowing his father. According to his [...]
The Boden Center
Monday, January 10th, 2005The Bronx got a little touch of heaven his weekend. The Boden Center for Performing Arts officially launched in Castle Hill with a concert Friday evening (1/7) featuring jazzy reinterpretations of age-old standards, musical theater by a youth drama troupe called BAMSS (By Any Means Save Some), and modern dance performed by members of the [...]
2004′s Xcel Top Ten
Monday, January 3rd, 2005[Sorry, these are not funny. Nor are they listed in any particular order. For more on Generation Xcel, visit here.] 1. Replicating “by youth for youth” as ten teens co-founded Xpress, our second after school program in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 2. Graduating the inaugural class of 18 XL Service Corps members from Boot Camp, [...]
Even the NY Times Gets It
Monday, January 3rd, 2005Some of evangelical Christianity’s most respected leaders still don’t believe Hip Hop can be a viable expression of worship or a legitimate means of outreach. They are not paying attention. The effectiveness of anointed Hip Hop to change lives has been duly noted by, among others, the New York Times (yes, that Times), which visited [...]
Jesus Walks with Me
Friday, December 31st, 2004I’ve been wrestling with the unexplainable lately. Throughout this week, the tsunami. Yesterday, Adam Jeremiah. For nearly two years, ministry difficulties, personal struggles, even health challenges. In countless bizarre, almost surreal ways, it feels (deep down, where life hurts) like a flame upon my flesh has been turned seven time hotter. Against that backdrop, I [...]
Evangelism 101, Hip Hop Style
Friday, December 31st, 2004I helped a friend move yesterday, along with a crew of seven teenage boys. They’re all great kids from God-fearing, evangelical families. They’re all actively involved in a local church youth group, and most, if not all, attended Christian elementary and middle schools. One of the boys’ parents are pastors of a leading church in [...]
Christmas Greetings from Jeremy
Monday, December 13th, 2004December 13, 2004 Dear Friends, Christmas celebrates a love that that gives its best to enrich others. This year, Generation Xcel will experience this in a profound way as we commission one of our homegrown leaders to join a national ministry later this month as a project manager for their “Urban Youth Strategy.†Enid Almanzar [...]
The Revolution Continues
Saturday, December 11th, 2004We believe in a faith that’s relevant, transformative, and real. (Check out “From Irrelevant to Revolutionary” for more.) This weekend, inner city teens are grappling with age old questions in Life in Translation, a nontraditional, original holiday production featuring jazz, Shakespeare, and acting by The Company. Check out pictures here. The Life in Translation program [...]
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