Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie was today’s keynote speaker at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit. She visited Syracuse (above) about a decade ago.
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Throwback Thursday: Sister Bishop
Thursday, March 10th, 2016Flip the Script
Saturday, January 25th, 2014And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
ACTS 28:12 (KJV)
James Street
The American Bible Society ranked Syracuse as one of the least Bible-minded cities in the U.S. (#86 out of 100), but before you feel less than blessed remember Acts 28:12.
Throwback Thursday: Spreading the Word
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant was a featured speaker at the Citywide Crusade back in the day.
Townsend Acts
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Author Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at Syracuse University’s inaugural Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society. She discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also advocated that it’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
Townsend, who wrote Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way, discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
“It’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally,” she said.
Hip Hop Hallelujah
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008September is Gospel Music Month. In my many car trips this summer my children memorized a song by the group Renewed Disciples (from New Jersey) called “What Would Jesus Do.” RD will perform in Rochester later this week and in Buffalo later in the fall. The groups contemporary style shows that Hip Hop has just as much influence on Gospel as it does R&B for the younger generation.