Slavery wasn't a white invention. Anthony Johnson—freed slave from Angola—bought land & his own servants in 1651. African kingdoms like Dahomey built wealth on slave trade before European ships arrived. It's about human depravity.
punctumdictum.blog/willing-slaves/

Beware the symbols that have outgrown what they represent.

Almost none of the newly freed slaves demanded reparations. They looked forward, built schools, bought land, started businesses. Their descendants 160 years removed can't stop talking about reparations. What changed? #BlackHistory

punctumdictum.blog/reparations-they-never-demanded/

Context is King.

Sittin' here wonderin' if the 7 *actual* kings gathered at Davos really missed the irony of their "No Kings" (anti-Trump) protest...

#WEF2026 #Davos2026

Love doesn't lie.

Revulsion at absurd things is the gag reflex of the conscience.

Robert Robinson Taylor (MIT's first black grad, 1892). Mathias de Sousa (elected to Maryland assembly, 1641). Bass Reeves (U.S. Marshal, 3000+ arrests). These were builders, not victims. These are the crooked sticks we forgot.

#BlackHistory
punctumdictum.blog/real-crooked-sticks/

The shortest path to gratitude is through the realization of how little we deserve.

The devil is busy but GOD is busier.

Every time we treat King as a Christian hero rather than a theological liberal who used Christian vocabulary for social ends, we reinforce a lie: that the Gospel is fundamentally about the temporal rather than the about the eternal...
punctumdictum.blog/the-reverend-mlk-wasnt/

In 1965, 25% of black children were born to unwed mothers. It's now 75%. It's not random social evolution but the predictable result of a welfare state that treats fathers as liabilities & marriage as a luxury the poor can't afford.

punctumdictum.blog/high-hopes-fractured-families-great-society/

Go ahead and let your mistakes define you – not the ones you've made, but the ones you've owned.

The "Reverend Dr." MLK was a social icon, but also a spiritual fraud who denied the heart of Christianity. Have we just been gaslit into lionizing him? If you suspected the receipts never quite added up but have been afraid to say so—here ya go: punctumdictum.blog/failed-heroe...

#MLKDay

Ethnic gnosticism elevates personal experience rooted in group identity above Scripture. It says "You can't understand because you're not one of us"—undermining Scripture's sufficiency. If that's not heresy, what is?

punctumdictum.blog/gospel-destroys-ethnic-gnosticism

Back to BlueSky after a year away. I aim for Christ-centered commentary from a Reformed theological angle. Classical liberal, I do lean a bit polemical but am focused more on accuracy. Recent: punctumdictum.blog/tribal-tempt...

What should I know about the Reformed/theology community here on bsky?