Articles Worth Considering
May 4th, 2008The man who is the closest thing I have to a father wrote an article a few years ago for his hometown newspaper, and he shared it with me over email the first time we corresponded after meeting at the University. I gave it another read today while researching my weekly baseball column. In it, he pauses to recognize his “dear reader” and as I began to type this entry, I smiled realizing how much Jon and I have in common. Not just because we occasionally refer to our “dear reader” in our writings, but you can read it for yourself and figure it out.
Back to our regularly-scheduled programming, there are two articles I would recommend to you, Dear Reader, that have a lot more to do with problems in the black church and black community than with baseball. Gary MacDougal’s Jeremiah Wright’s Wider Toll, published in the Washington Post, is a thought-provoking read and Christopher Hitchens’ article from awhile back, while a lesser-read than MacDougal’s, is still worthy of one and I recommend it here.