A call to ministry :
"It is not about being important but rather what we do with that importance".
Despite the legacy of the historical presence of black religion and churches a Black Theology has not been made practical and applicable for the continuation of the increasingly threatened black church and denomination for its existence. These links highlight one such denomination's history and purpose being forgotten
About The Author
Rev. Kenneth l. Johnson is an itinerant elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Having earned the Benjamin E. Mays Fellowship and the John Middleton Scholarship awards, he is an acknowledged intellectual among clergy persons. Devoted to the elevation of a God consciousness, he has an awareness and sensitivity for people and seeks to address their religious concerns as it relates to responsibilities towards one another and towards God. He seeks to raise the conscious discussion of theology particularly in the black community/church. He is relentless in efforts to ascertain the truisms of religion. He advocates that the Black Church having a common calling develop a theological framework for its sustainability in America given its moral directive.
Rev . Johnson, a native Kansan, received a dual Bachelor of Science degree from University of Kansas, has a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Detroit, completed a master of Divinity at the Interdenominational Theological Center of Atlanta, Georgia and then further extended his research at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, West Africa
Kenneth Johnson wants people to view this web site as the platform for an evolving social movement to eradicate race/racism.
"Tow The Line"
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Come on everyone Let's tow the line
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Come on everyone Let's tow the line
It's no imagination It's for real
My ancestors and yours were killed
So come on everyone Let's tow the line
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Come on everyone Let's tow the line
I see the very faces of the past
Yet it's just a memory for many it won't last
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It's time to tow the line
Yes it's your history your history
But our failures to act makes this His Story
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It's suppose to be with God going forward
But too many of us are still just cowards
Yes our God in the past even in the present But going ahead
I'm telling you we've been sleeping in the wrong bed
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Come on Lets' all of us Tow the line
Today it's all about wealth and fame
Take a good look We all share in this blame
Yes it's about money and things I say to God all seven
Lord God we forgotten how to look to heaven
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Come on everyone Tow the line
Still we keep living this same old page
While others convict our youth putting them in the cage
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Your street behaviors they must change
Brother Sisters it's time to turn the page
God is our witness in every instance
The question is Can we go the distance
We don't serve God We are too lazy
Make it to heaven (right now) That sounds crazy
We think to go it alone Oh we've gotten tougher
But the fact is We still need that Last Supper
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Come on Tow the line
We're forgetting what religion is all about
But heaven heaven heaven still holds the clout
So come on everybody
We need to know our theology
Not just our chemistry and biology
Come on Tow the line
Because we keep wanting a blessing
When sometimes what we need is a good old fashion lesson
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Black history is not just a blast from the past
It's suppose to create a Brand New Cast
Tow the line Tow the line
Because if we don't share our love Have our Faith
Then we ought understand sometimes why God is so late.
Black Theology: Removing the Veil
Removing the Veil (Blog Declaration) This is not about being liberated but having been called out of something to become God's message and messenger as the bedrock of a people's religion and community through the Black Church. Black Theology takes on a more fundamental meaning as to how Christianity can or should also be viewed as a revelation of God through a chosen and peculiar people. It is not intended to revive the discussion of the 1960s amid the churches new identity being called black but rather to understand a theology from its beginning when acknowledging that the first theology was in today's racial term, a Black Theology. A Black Theology need become part of the discussion in any seminarian's study inclusive in mainstream teachings. Black Theology - Removing the Veil is intended to strengthen and validate the existence and continuation of the Black Church/denomination establishing a theology applicable in the preaching and teaching. We can not accomplish this without a sound theological base, a Black Theology. Let's do this through participation!
Crucifying a Color
Let's End This: History has buried a racial hyperbole of protracted untruths needing to be unmasked by studying the historical narrative of a social phenomenon which has led to profiling on the basis of skin color. This blog is intended to extricate a set of beliefs and shared values of people resulting in practiced patterns of behavior and thinking called a Cultural Mindset. It is perhaps that we are programmed by our history and social practices given our views on differences, appearances and descriptions as if true without really understanding. If something is said enough by enough people, it becomes what we believe. We have embraced this cultural identity as the subset to explain and validate the concept of race giving cause for a division among people on account of physical characteristics particularly skin color. These differences are the result of other factors effecting us externally only not changing our common humanity. We can change this historical mindset directly addressing racism. Let's end this!
The Play: Crucifying A Color
The Play: Crucifying A Color
Black Theology: Removing the Veil
Removing the Veil (Blog Declaration) This is not about being liberated but having been called out of something to become God's message and messenger as the bedrock of a people's religion and community through the Black Church. Black Theology takes on a more fundamental meaning as to how Christianity can or should also be viewed as a revelation of God through a chosen and peculiar people. It is not intended to revive the discussion of the 1960s amid the churches new identity being called black but rather to understand a theology from its beginning when acknowledging that the first theology was in today's racial term, a Black Theology. A Black Theology need become part of the discussion in any seminarian's study inclusive in mainstream teachings. Black Theology - Removing the Veil is intended to strengthen and validate the existence and continuation of the Black Church/denomination establishing a theology applicable in the preaching and teaching. We can not accomplish this without a sound theological base, a Black Theology. Let's do this through participation!
Crucifying a Color
Let's End This: History has buried a racial hyperbole of protracted untruths needing to be unmasked by studying the historical narrative of a social phenomenon which has led to profiling on the basis of skin color. This blog is intended to extricate a set of beliefs and shared values of people resulting in practiced patterns of behavior and thinking called a Cultural Mindset. It is perhaps that we are programmed by our history and social practices given our views on differences, appearances and descriptions as if true without really understanding. If something is said enough by enough people, it becomes what we believe. We have embraced this cultural identity as the subset to explain and validate the concept of race giving cause for a division among people on account of physical characteristics particularly skin color. These differences are the result of other factors effecting us externally only not changing our common humanity. We can change this historical mindset directly addressing racism. Let's end this!