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The Indigenous Christ: Returning to the Way Before Empire

Before Jesus walked the earth, Christ walked with creation. Long before Roman coins bore the face of Caesar and long before European churches adorned their walls with pale-skinned messiahs, the essence of Christ already existed—not as a crown-wearing conqueror, but as the sacred rhythm between Creator and creation. What Jesus revealed was not new—it was a return. Christ is not a European. Christ is not a political mascot. Christ is not a king enthroned by conquest. Christ is a way of being, and that way is indigenous to the earth itself. Christ Was Before Jesus “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” —John 1:1 This “Word”—the Logos—isn’t just information or doctrine. It is divine pattern. A life aligned with justice, humility, harmony, and truth. Indigenous cultures understood this long before the arrival of missionaries. The Christ pattern was known: In the reciprocity with the land In the respect for the ancestors I...
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What Stevie Wonder Knew: My People See It, We Just Answer in a Different Key

"When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer." Stevie Wonder wrote that line in 1972, and it carries the weight of a survival manual folded into three minutes of funk. I grew up hearing that song treated as a warning about foolishness, about black cats and broken mirrors. I hear it differently now. I hear a community naming a feeling it has no other word for, a felt danger with no confirmed shape, managed through ritual because the danger itself stays unnamed. I write this as someone who preps. I keep supplies, I make plans, I treat readiness as a daily practice. I used to look at folks who answer every warning sign with "pray about it" or "don't speak it into existence" and feel a flash of frustration, like the urgency I feel wasn't landing. I've come to understand something that changes the whole shape of this argument: they see it. The awareness runs just as deep as mine. The response simply takes a different fo...
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The Lamb That Speaks Like a Dragon: A Modern Reading of Revelation 13

For generations, prophecy scholars have mapped the “beasts” of Revelation onto world empires—Rome, the papacy, or most recently, the United States. But as current events accelerate, these traditional maps begin to tear at the edges. What if we have been looking in the wrong direction? A fresh—and deeply unsettling—reading of Revelation 13 suggests that the “lamb-like beast” is not America, but rather the modern State of Israel. And the “mark” of the beast? Not a microchip or a physical tattoo, but something far more insidious: nationalism itself, enforced by economic coercion and performative loyalty. Here is how that framework unfolds, and why it may be the most theologically urgent lens for our moment. The Beast from the Earth (Rev 13:11) “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.” In biblical symbolism, the “sea” represents chaotic Gentile nations. The “earth” (or land) represents the Promised Land—Eretz Yisrael. A...
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Finding My Voice in AAVE

  I didn’t always respect the way we speak. At 50-something years old, I can admit that plainly now. For most of my life, I saw what is now called African American Vernacular English—AAVE—as ignorant speech. I wouldn’t have used that exact phrasing back then, but the belief was there. Quiet. Unexamined. Reinforced by school, media, and the subtle rewards of fitting in. I spoke what people call “proper English.” Some would say I “talked white.” And to be honest—it served me well. In corporate environments, my speech opened doors. It made conversations smoother. It lowered resistance. It made white colleagues more comfortable. There’s an unspoken ease that comes when you sound familiar to the dominant culture. You are heard faster. Questioned less. Accepted sooner. At the time, it felt like success. Now, it feels more complicated. The Comfort We Learned to Provide There’s a thought I heard recently that stuck with me: “Proper speech is considered better because it is more acceptable ...
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