Hagar

In today’s world, everyone is pressured to get married and have kids either by society, friends or family. When you’re in a relationship for a while, questions are asked: “When are you getting married?” Once you’re married: “When are you having kids?” Couples have an intense amount of pressure to start families. When the couple is finally ready to have kids, after many failed attempts they may find out they are incapable of producing children of their own. This can be one of the most devastating…

moment of weakness. They were worried about when God’s promise was going to be fulfilled and instead of waiting and trusting and having faith in God, they took actions into their own hand. Sarah convince Abraham to sleep with and have a baby with Hagar. God could not have been pleased about this, but yet He showed grace and love and mercy to Abraham and Sarah, and still lived up to His promise (covenant) with Abraham and made him the father of many nations and his descendants will mirror the…

African American Speech Maker is an oracle of all the great voice written and heard through the time of the Mayflower until now. In the book of Fitch; how sweet the sound is about the spirit of African American History. It shows that they were some of the greatest speechmaker of their own time. The book speaks of African American speech, tradition, community, ceremony, and rituals and how it gave them the strength to persist in their struggle toward freedom. In Vincent Harding speech he uses…

accountability, divine judgment, and reward or punishment. Muslims, Jews and Christians claim dissent from Abraham and his wife, Sarah throughout their son I sac, Muslims trace their religious roots back to Abraham throughout this mile, his first born son by Hagar, Sarah Egyptian servant.” (Esposito, p. 223) This last extract from the book clearly shows how similar and close these three religions are from one another. The footings for God might be the same in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity but…

Epistle of Galatians I. Greeting & Salutations (Gal. 1:1-16) A. Paul sends a letter to the churches of Galatia. (Gal.1:1-5) 1. Paul tells the churches that he was not sent my man or himself, but by God the father who raised him from the dead. (Gal.1:1) 2. Paul explains that he and everyone that was with him, were sent by Jesus Christ himself to minister to the churches of Galatia. (Gal.1:2) 3. Paul send peace and blessing to the churches and explained how Jesus Christ sent him to rescue the…

When people think of the Bible, they think of religion. People have to stop and think that the Bible is not only religion, but it’s also about literature. People question why to put literate styles because they think it will be easier to be straightforward with God’s message? The answer to that is that God used different people in different ways. The people God used wrote in the style they are known with as how the Holy Spirit encouraged them. There are so many types of literary means used by…

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison explores the toxic relationship within a family living on “Not Doctor Street” in Michigan during the early 1950’s and 60’s prior to the Civil Rights Act and end the of segregation. Even though they were no longer slaves, they were treated as if they were not a meaningful part of society. Blacks worked in low paying jobs and lived in all- black neighborhoods. Throughout the novel, there is a theme of the irrelevance of black lives. The very name “Dead” was given…

What To Fight For Kindred by Octavia E. Butler asks the question of what a black woman from the 20th century would do if she was thrown back into the time of slavery. It is something many people have perhaps pondered in passing but Butler goes into detail on this question. Kindred is a revolutionary take on a slave novel because the main character is from the (relative) present. Many of Dana’s decisions are influenced on the fact that she has opinions and leanings because of her 1976…

anti the oppressor and pro freedom. Black theology would create God to be a liberating Being. This idea is not far from scriptural accuracy. God is a jealous God and a God who frees those held in captivity. Examples of this type of liberation include Hagar being freed from slavery of Sarah, the Exodus, and the sacrifice of Jesus the Christ, who died to free everyone from their own sins. James Cone’s theology was also accurate, in which our perception becomes the reality of our own beliefs. Cone…

Octavia Estelle Butler, a black woman writer who devoted her life to produce a great series of American science fictions. Among all the works of literature that she wrote, the novel, Kindred, stands up to be one of her few science fictions describing the slavery. She makes a fabulous effort to add the element of science into slavery, which no one will think of it to be related to any scientific component. In Kindred, Butler represents the gloomy history of African American in the 18th century in…