The 2022 season of Mother’s Day is a fitting occasion for me to highlight several special qualities of the person I claim as my “mothering editor.” In the process of editing, she “mothers” the child-like creations of both novice and mature writers alike, by offering the best of her gifts and professional qualities to help us write and publish better. My mothering editor is Mary C. Lewis. A mother gives birth or receives a child as her own. She then gives . . .

The Crucifixion was a “Black on Black Crime” in a white imperialistic power religious-social-cultural context. The appeal here is to step back and take a more perceptive look at the true picture of the racial and ethnocultural dynamics of the Crucifixion.

I thank God for giving me a better understanding of the “cross” in my life and ministry—a ministry of 50 years in 2019.  Besides giving me strength, this wisdom about the “cross” has brought about a major change in my thoughts on pursuing spiritual formation. The words of Jesus speak to the issue: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny him­self, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Luke 9:23, NKJV, emphasis added). In 2012, the Lord answered a prayer request that I had been asking of Him for five years. . . .