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Mary Lee Brady, Ph. D.
| "Go back to John and tell him all you have seen and heard here today.... how those who were blind can see. The lame are walking without a limp. The lepers are completely healed. The deaf can hear again. The dead (inactive minds) come back to life. And the poor (in body and spirit) are hearing (and experiencing) the GOOD NEWS. And tell him, 'Blessed is the one who does not lose his faith in ME (Keep Hope Alive)."[Luke 7] Every generation has always had one or more "Action Jacksons" with courage and determination to go, see and tell what they have seen and heard, ... often at great efforts to do so.
Who are your carriers of good news liberation philosophy/theology? What about Black pulpits and press? Which pastors or their secretaries and deacons return telephone calls to callers unknown to them? In a random sampling of your known church congregations, ... identify those that have ministers who visit "the least of us" in the hospitals, jails, prisons, Africa, the Caribbean or even your neighborhood homes? Does it matter that enlightened African-Americans up from horrors of the past have received most, if not all, their good news via labors of both disciplines? Which ones do you patronize?
Better that believers should perhaps wonder as to what would exist without their discipleships? Major mass media for the most part do not address the issues raised by Jesus, (especially regarding "the least of us") excepting in regards to entertainment and sports. Is there anyone of education and legitimate standing in the cause of faith, hope and love of Christ, .... that dares believe the slave trade, slavery and denigration would have ended without Messianic discipleships that challenged mighty men [Africans and Arabs, Black and White, Jews and Gentiles] of money and means? Readers can research and read the who, why, where and when of those who opposed the good news for "the least of us" even unto the current generation wherein many deny and lie about it, ... such as 40 years of opposition to full-funding of Head-Start that would have helped inspire and motivate millions of impoverished African-American young mothers and their pre-school children. The social dynamics of the head-start programs were the last best hope for reversing the tide of what now exist -- ignorance in most impoverished African-American neighborhoods populated by poorly educated and uninspired mothers! Teachers Unions led by faithless men and women were the primary opposition in their fear that somehow children being inspired and motivated in church basements would lessen their official hold and funding for big bold buildings and bigger paychecks in their professional careers. |
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