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As the college football season reaches its conclusion here in the coming weeks, recruiting has picked up significantly as coaches all across the country were making last minute visits before the NCAA mandatory dead period, which started as of last week and lasts until mid-January.
To go along with the season of giving, I have decided to look at the top ten ranked recruiting classes, according to the 247 Sports composite rankings, and give them each one recruit that they have on their Christmas wish list and hope to land on signing day. Now, we will assume that each team's current commits will stay committed, so the players on the team's wish list are currently uncommitted recruits.
10. Florida Gators – CB Adoree' Jackson
After the season the Florida Gators had, they need plenty of help and depth to get themselves back in the SEC East title hunt in 2014. They have a solid class with five-stars Ermon Lane, Will Grier and Dalvin Cook, but they would like to add one more on the defensive side with Adoree' Jackson. Jackson is the No. 2 cornerback in the nation and has the Gators as one of his top schools along with USC and LSU. The 5-9, 182 pound California native may be undersized, but he makes up for it with his speed and quickness and would fit perfectly beside current Gator freshman cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III.
9. Georgia Bulldogs – DE Lorenzo Carter
Carter is one of the most talented and coveted prospects in this class. The five-star Georgia native and No. 1 weak-side defensive end in the country currently has Alabama, Florida and Georgia among his leaders, but FSU and LSU are also in the mix and are making a strong push. Carter is right in Georgia's backyard at nearby Norcross High School in Gwinnett County, and would use his great 6-5, 235 pound frame to play outside linebacker in their 3-4 defensive scheme. Carter has said that he will announce on signing day, and if it were today, he would be signing with the Dawgs. However, this is college recruiting and nothing is guaranteed. If Mark Richt and company cannot land a home-state talent like Carter and lose him to another SEC power, there will be a lot of upset people in Athens come early February.
8. Notre Dame Fighting Irish – ATH John Smith
Notre Dame has quietly put together a solid top ten recruiting class coming in currently at No. 8 in the country, but it would get a huge boost if they would be able to land the dynamic athlete John Smith. A California native, Smith has listed the Fighting Irish along with the Trojans of USC as the two teams at the top. The 6-1, 200 pounder could play safety or wide receiver at the next level and has the size and ball skills to do each very well. The N0. 2 athlete in the nation had over 50 tackles and six interceptions as well as over 700 yards receiving with nine touchdowns as a junior in 2012.
7. Auburn Tigers – LB Rashaan Evans
Auburn's class has really come together in the past few weeks as they signed four JUCO targets including D'haquille Williams and DaVonte Lambert. The class is headlined by five-star running back Racean Thomas, but one of the biggest prospects they could land is on the defensive side of the ball in Rashaan Evans. I mentioned earlier how Lorenzo Carter was in Georgia's back yard, but Evans is basically at Auburn already as he attends Auburn High School in Alabama. The 6-3, 220 pound four-star outside linebacker is listed as the third best at his position in the country for 2014, and Auburn is the strong favorite for his services over Georgia and Alabama. Evans has the size and speed (4.5 forty-yard dash) to play inside or outside linebacker, in my opinion, and has the athleticism that a defense needs to be successful in the SEC.
6. Florida State Seminoles – CB Marlon Humphrey
It is no surprise that the Seminoles are climbing their way up the recruiting rankings as they have had a great season and are playing for the national championship, which recruits obviously like. Marlon Humphrey is the No. 1 corner back in the country, and the Alabama native would be a tough pull for the Seminoles. The 6-1, 175 pound five-star defensive back has Alabama as the team to beat, but do not count out the Seminoles and Jimbo Fisher in recruiting. What will be key in this battle, is whether or not Jimbo Fisher, who is a candidate for the Texas head coaching job, takes that position in Austin. This could create, according to sources, a trickle effect that could move Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart to Florida State as the possible head coach. A lot of variables are still in place for Humphrey, so whether or not Jimbo Fisher is at FSU or not, they are never out of the hunt.
5. Miami Hurricanes – OT Damian Prince
Miami is another team that has quietly moved up the recruiting rankings with the No. 5 class in the country and the top class in the ACC after a solid 9-3 regular season. Winning starts in the trenches, and the Hurricanes need to bolster their offensive line for the future by landing coveted five-star offensive tackle Damian Prince out of Maryland. Currently, the home-state Terrapins are battling Florida State for the 6-5, 295 pounder's services, but he has scheduled an official visit with the Hurricanes for January 31, a week before signing day, and we all know that final official visits before signing day can always change an 18-year-olds mind as Miami will make a strong push to bring Prince down to South Beach.
4. Texas A&M Aggies – WR Speedy Noil
With a name like Speedy you have to be good right? The five-star Louisiana native is the No. 1 wide receiver in the nation, and it seems to be a two-team race between the home-state LSU Tigers and the Aggies. While LSU is the favorite, which is not surprising considering Les Miles doesn't let talent leave the state, do not be surprised if the high-powered, up-tempo offense of the Aggies appeals to Noil. Noil took his official visit to A&M on September 13 and to LSU on December 6, but was visited in his home by Aggies head coach Kevin Sumlin on December 11 just before the dead period began. Noil is a priority for the Aggies, but it will take a strong push from Sumlin to outduel Miles.
3. Tennessee Volunteers – DE Andrew Williams
Head Coach Butch Jones has transformed the Volunteers in the recruiting circle as he has one of the best and biggest recruiting classes in the country with 33 verbal commits for 2014. They have commits from nearly every position, and in a rare year of good talent in the state of Tennessee, they have been able to own to the state and keep the top recruits to stay at home. There are not many spots left to fill for Tennessee as far as top prospects are concerned, and landing four-star defensive end Andrew Williams would be a tough, but solid addition. The 6-4, 247 pound Georgia native is currently favoring Auburn over Clemson, but he has taken two unofficial visits to Knoxville within the past five months. Williams would be a tough pull for the Vols, but there is still plenty of time if Butch Jones wants to make a push for the No. 12 defensive end in the nation.
2. Ohio State Buckeyes – CB Marshon Lattimore
The Buckeyes recently signed one of their top targets, five-star linebacker Raekwon McMillan, and are also leading for another top defensive player, corner back Marshon Lattimore. The four-star corner is rated as the fifth best at his position in the country for 2014 and has the home-state Buckeyes as his leaders over Alabama, Oregon and USC. The 6-0, 175 pounder has the size and length to go along with solid tackling to come in and continue the tradition of strong defensive backs in Columbus. Lattimore recently took his official visit to Ohio State on December 13, and I would be surprised if he did not sign with the Buckeyes in February.
1. Alabama Crimson Tide – RB Leonard Fournette
Alabama has the most impressive class by far in 2014, hence the No. 1 overall ranking. The class is headlined by the No. 1 offensive tackle and defensive end in the nation, Cameron Robinson and Da'Shawn Hand. The Tide have a recent tradition of producing great running backs, and their top target is undoubtedly running back Leonard Fournette. Fournette is the not only the No. 1 running back in the country, but the No. 1 player in the country regardless of position. The 6-1, 226 pound Louisiana native is probably the best running back prospect to come out of high school since Marcus Lattimore and has every quality it takes to be an elite talent at the next level: size, speed, quickness and the ability to break tackles. The Tide do not miss out on many top prospects, but right now it seems that they trail the LSU Tigers for the top player in the land. Fournette recently took his official visit to the Tigers on December 6 and to Alabama on December 14. Once again, this one will come down to the wire and be a heated battle between SEC West rivals.
* All player and team rankings courtesy of 247 Sports
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We're still recovering from the amazingness that was New York Comic Con (lots of pics to come) and now we're back home things are busier than ever. If you were at the show you will have got an exclusive look at our spin off title following a younger Afroella, but if you weren't, fear not because we can now reveal it to the world.
If you'd like to get your hands on a print of this image, we're now offering it as an exclusive reward to everyone who pledges £30 or more to our kickstarter campaign. With a little under 34 hours left there's no better time to pledge your support for Afroella. Follow the link here Afroella Kickstarter
Much love
Gem + Lee
Yesterday we launched our Afroella Kickstarter campaign and it's off to a great start!
Massive thank you to everybody that's already pledged, you are all truly awesome!
If you haven't already, head on over and check it out . We've got some wicked rewards for every pledge; from exclusive digital content, all 4 full colour print editions to t-shirts, buttons, sketches and much more. There's even the chance to appear as a character in the final instalment of the series.
Every, pledge, share & tweet is massively appreciated and goes a long way to helping us reach our goal.
Love you all.
Lee & Gem
We don't often blog real life science stories but this one we couldn't pass by. It seems a team of astronomers in Hawaii have discovered a brand new pink planet that greatly resembles the mysterious planet Kroma, the setting for Afroellas current adventures and the source of the robot menace.
Apparently if you point your telescopes towards the Virgo constellation and look for the bright spot, that is in fact where you'll find planet Kro…ahem we mean…GJ504b .
Even better though, with a sun much hotter than ours, we're going to assume the beaches are amazing!
Now we have no concept of how far 57 light years is but it can't take any longer than an East Coast Railway journey from London to Leeds (ask Gemma) so pack your bikinis people, let's all go to GJ 504b
As a treat here's a little something to brighten up your desktop…a super awesome Afroella#2 wallpaper!
It's been a while since our last update but if you've been following us on Twitter and Facebook you'll know we're still alive and busy flying the Afroella flag of awesomeness.
We've just returned from a fantastic weekend at London Super Comic Con where we debuted the brand spanking new redesigned cover for Afroella#2.
So now without further ado, may we present it here to the world of Tumblr.
Click the pic above to catch our audio interview at Kapow Comic Con with Jimmy Aquino of Comic News Insider alongside some great interviews with Gary Erskine, Mark Millar and Jonathan Ross to name a few [we're around 1:14:30 just after Gary Erskine]
This week sees the second year of Kapow Comic Con and we're happy to say we'll be there with bells on! Come and swing by and say hi (we love to chat!) or if you fancy you can get your hands on your copy of Afroella and some pretty awesome merch to go with…you might catch 1 or two cheeky surprises from us too along the way.
Remember to check out the website at http://kapowcomicconvention.com the lineup is looking fantastic with Lucha Wrestling, some amazing comics talent and plenty of previews for upcoming movies (Amazing Spiderman FTW!)
A little overdue , here's a few pics from our table at London Super Comic Con . This was the first year for London Super Comic Con and have to say the organisers did a great job in making it memorable. An amazing lineup of artists and writers made for a fantastic weekend made even better by the presence of the great Stan Lee. It's rare for a comics show to purely concentrate on comics and this was a refreshing move.
so without further ado…
Our table of Afroella wares , buy buy buy, sell sell sell!
The tentacular multi tentacle Crackenhol monster was the theme of the day with cutouts , badges and plush tentacle.
pretty soon the tentacle had developed a mind of its own [good for him there was plenty of reading material around ;) ]
Never let it be said that Gem doesn't know how to pose …
Though by Sunday, tiredness had started to kick in and coffee was in order , luckily Gemma perfected the art of still looking awesome while asleep on her feet so Lee could make the run….
One fail in that plan is Lee could only do the same with support…
and is prone to Crakenhol night terrors!!!
We had a fantastic time, made plenty of sales and gained some great feedback from new and old faces alike. Apart from the militant Excel security staff who took a sadistic glee in their job come kicking out time, we had a very warm welcome for Afroella and we can't wait for next year. See y'all there :)

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SWMBO came across an old homebrew log book the other day when I got back into brewing after returning from living in beer heaven (Germany) and lo and behold, I found my first attempt at Apfelwein. Needless to say, it was a bust.
Pitching dry yeast into juice made from concentrate & spring water in a 50 degree ambient temperature basement did not work very well.
This was almost 14 years ago, so here's a shot of my original log.
I came up with the current recipe with my second attempt after a bit of research. The rest is Apfelwein history.
EdWortHaus Pale Ale, Bavarian Hefeweizen, Robust Porter, Oktoberfest Ale, Wounded Knee IPA, Rye IPA, BCB IPA, Kolsch, Apfelwein
Nice! I can hear a batch bubbling away from my couch right now.
Did you still drink your first batch even tough it wasn't good?
I was born in 87.
Loving your apfelwein though. Literally the best thing i've ever brewed. I've got 2 batches going.


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The show opened with an exceptionally good speech this year from Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe's, who spoke at the Salute to Excellence Breakfast Monday morning. Rauch spoke about how "culture eats strategy," or in other words, how culture is what makes companies. As retailers scramble to differentiate themselves from competition across channels, in-stores and online, Rauch's point that "culture is the one thing that can't be copied" seems more meaningful now than ever. He also made the point that risk will only come out from a culture of trust. For anyone who's ever shopped in a Trader Joe's and experienced some of the best customer service there is out there, you can imagine that Rauch is correct.
Out on the show floor convenience ruled the day. While this trend has been around for a while, it was obvious that companies are investing time and research into how to improve and broaden the appeal of their convenience items. While private label k-cups are racing into retail stores, making quick coffee brewing more economically feasible to the masses, Massimo Zanetti was showing Single Serving Pods, a more sustainable option offering 37% less packaging and a better extraction of coffee. Bay Valley Foods expanded its coffee cup offerings into hot tea, iced tea, cocoa, and a chai tea latte, which I found tasted creamy with just the right spiciness.
New, more convenient ways of packaging standard food stood out, such as Seneca Foods' new 4-oz. vegetable cups in four-cup packs for individual snacks, or Jyoti Natural Foods' organic black beans in water offered in BPA-free pouches instead of your standard can. Bay Valley also offered a new Marsala sauce in a pouch for quick meals that only require adding a protein, a trend seen throughout retail stores today. For baby foods in pouch packaging Andros Foods was the booth to see. Still, other products took on new shapes themselves, such as "rolled" tortilla chips from Snak King, a deviation from your standard chip shape.
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Have your tastes changed over time ?
- emglow101 Sep 7, 2013 09:21 PM
I'm not that into spicy food any more.I used to love it. Now it just burns and I can't taste the food.Sweets are on the decline.I still like salty.Have your tastes for sweet,sour,salty,or spicy foods changed over time ?
I've learned what I do and do not like as I've gotten older. I realized a few years ago that I don't like soy sauce. I don't mind cooking with it, as long as I can't taste it.
I like spicy tastes, but it really burns my mouth now, so I go for mild on the heat.
Salty used to be my least favorite flavor, but I'm liking a bit of salt with sweet now.
Every once in a while I get re-acquainted with something I loved years ago and that taste is almost always a letdown. I'm sure it has something to do with romanticizing the past and having unrealistic expectations but I also fear that my senses are dulling or something.
I wrote a post a few years ago that an iced cold domestic beer used to taste good to me when I was younger and now it tastes sort of soapy.. "off", less bright, less refreshing.
I know it's just stupid yankee beer, and it's not exactly supposed to taste great, but it couldn't have changed that much. I must have changed.
I've suffered a permanent loss of much of my tasting ability - a persistent, chronic vasomotor rhinitis that led to years of frequent nose-blowing. I recently read that this will remove the top layer of olfactory sensors … and that they don't grow back. By the time I read that it had already happened. Of course I still enjoy food, and can taste a lot of the flavors I love, but with most of the more delicate aroma sensors gone I've lost much of the finer edge I used to have. In other words, if I had any dreams of becoming a sommelier, I'd need to forget them …
There are upsides. My lifelong dislike of sweet custard has ended; the sensors that equated the combination of cooked egg and sugar with burnt hair are no longer on the job. I think I could even enjoy some of that bread pudding with which my mom repeatedly tortured me almost 70 years ago (because, as a mother of small children, she was allowed unlimited ration stamps for milk, bread, eggs and sugar). However, I'm afraid durian is still off the menu; my sense of smell isn't THAT bad!
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That's very interesting. I also have horrible sinuses and constant nose blowing. I also have lost much of my sense of smell. I didn't relate them.
I just always thought I was vaguely schizophrenic... ; >
My sweet tooth seems to have vanished nearly entirely. Desserts other cheese and fruit hold zero appeal these days. I should probably be happy about it, really.
With spicy foods, if I am not eating them regularly, my tolerance for the heat diminishes quite rapidly - I go in cycles of higher heat-tolerance when I am cooking more spicy dishes.
The older I get, the more things I like. Food that used to literally make me gag is great. I think our taste buds dull with age and so things that were especially pungent are less so.
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Those are two I have definitely added over time but I was probably 11-12 when I started liking them.
I still like spicy but I find that I am less enamored by cheese. I eat cheese but in smaller quantities and less frequently than in years gone by.
I've never liked sugar and sweet things but now I find I have become extremely taste-sensitive and everything tastes too sweet to me. Ditto with salt (which I like) - I've avoided it for so long (I retain water like a sponge) that now everything tastes super-salty. Makes it hard to eat in restaurants.
Specific foods - used to hate cilantro, now I love it. I became sensitive to garlic (a basic food group, IMHO) a number of years ago. For a long time, even the smell of it made me gag. I still avoid it. Used to like red meat. Don't enjoy it anymore. Used to hate chutney. Now I love it.
I've always like hot/spicy but even more so now. Once I stopped eating food with garlic, which is an overpowering flavor, I began to appreciate other flavors much, much more.
When I stop loving pizza and cheesecake, start digging my grave.
I have never been a big fan of sweets, but my tastes for savory have definitely changed. When I was younger, fast food and what I consider "junk" by my definition was all I wanted. I would eat the other stuff but not necessarily by choice. It has occurred to me in the past few years that my tastes have really changed. When given the choice I will chose a lovely plate of grilled chicken or a home cooked meal including even steamed broccoli over many other things and often crave foods that I never have before. I love the way I eat now and can't believe what I used find appetizing is usually always a disappointment to me now. I'm also much more adventurous with food and as a result have discovered more foods ingredients than I can count that I absolutely love now.
As a kid I enjoyed orange and grape soda. I couldn't imagine what it would take to get me to let that down my gullet again. I also was fine with coconut as a kid. I don't remember being especially fond of it but I was open enough to it and now if it's an ingredient in anything but a curry I'll pass on that food. I wouldn't eat foods with bell peppers. I found them too spicy. Now I can't imagine cooking without them and have moved on to jalapeños (provided the seeds and ribs are removed). I also loathed eggplant and salmon well into my college years. Now they are both pleasures I seek out.
As we age we become exposed to so much more and come to appreciate and respond to new things. But those are specific reversals of my tastes.
My tastes have definitely changed. Some of it has been due to exposure to new things. Some to over exposure. I think I have gotten much pickier over the years. If something isn't really good tasting I will pass, and get something else. I won't eat mediocre food anymore.
I've never liked salty foods and I still feel the same way. The biggest problem I have in restaurants is food that is too salty.
Back in 2003/04 I worked as assistant on a dairy farm making grass fed raw milk cheese and baking brick oven bread. I used to go crazy for cheese, but by the time I left that farm (due to injury) I had enough cheese for life. I now only get cheese every now and then, and it's extra sharp cheddar, or Pecorino Romano for grating.
In 2007-09 I was partners in a winery and we built a brewery. I drank so much beer that I hardly drink any now. I just don't enjoy it as much as I did during the 90's when I was a total beer geek.
While I still like spicy food, it doesn't like me anymore. My stomach can't always handle it. When I helped judge a hot sauce competition a few months ago by the time it was hour six and sauce number 97 I thought I was dying. Ten years ago I would have loved it. Although I do like spicy heat in small amounts.
Sure. It's only very recently (within the past year or so) that I've understood what people mean when they say things like "if you can taste the saffron you're using too much". I don't think that's quite literally true but I'm getting better at picking up background notes and understanding how they're important even if you don't notice them.
Yes. When I was a kid, I used to LOVE super sweet things (think milk chocolate, coffee with 2-3 sugars, etc), and as rainy said, full sugar orange soda, etc. Those are too sweet for me now. I actually like bitter, very dark chocolate, and seek it out.
I go through phases in which I really crave spice....I like jalapenos and the occasional poblano, but can't tolerate bell peppers. Go figure.
I have a three bite rule, no matter what, if something is served to me, I have to take three bites, even if I'm positive I don't care for it.. This has made me love country pate. Especially if you are in Italy and it's some grandmother's recipe. hahahha
I also didn't care for guacamole and now I love it!!! The only thing that has changed for me is I like less sugar, but this was self inflicted, had to cut back!
Well, I'm now some years over 60, so it would be very odd if my tastes hadnt changed since I was a young man.
Over the years, I've been exposed to different food through travel; there's a greater range of food in the supermarkets to try; there's a greater range of restaurants to eat in, etc.
I've never had a big sweet tooth - I put it down to my very early years being while we still had food rationing after the World War and sugar was the last thing to come off ration. And, if I go back to my 20s, although there was much spice in the some of the foods, there wasnt heat. That's certainly been a change for the better.
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Harters, as one who is fast approaching 60, I understand your post.
I feel that my taste hasn't changed over time, as opposed to expanded with my travels.
That said, as I child I hated Mexican food (I first traveled to Mexico as age 7), ketchup, tomato juice, fesh tomnatoes, mayonaise, relish and most fish.
I still don't like them, BUT every year or so, I try them again to see if I have changed my taste/opinion.
I never liked the 'white' cheeses/dairy product: sour cream, yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese and still don't. BUT now I do eat cooked/baked items that contain these ingredients. Still can't stand them raw or on their own.
I was always told that one's taste gets more sophisticated as one grows older. I feel that is a myth. If children are exposed to the 'exotic' at a young age they may have the taste for it then. Our 16 year old has eaten olives and onions and pickles since the age of 7 months. Our 25 year old ate like a 5 year old until she worked on a small cruise ship and was forced to eat the crew meals that were set out each day. All of a sudden her horizons have expanded and she eats all the meals she rejected growing up. If her mother had not caved in and cooked separate meals for this daughter, I think she would have had a broader appreciating of food.
As too sweet and spice. I never had a sweet tooth, preferring savory and not caring for chocolate. I like spice, but not heat and that hasn't changed over time.


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The fourth-ranked Stanford Cardinal hung on for a 70-64 win over the Golden Bears at Maples Pavilion despite having a 30-point lead cut to five in the final minute of play. Boyd scored all 25 of her points in the final 13:35 of the game after the Cardinal had taken a 59-29 lead.
Stanford won its 19th straight game thanks to a big finish to the first half. Leading 31-25 with 3:34 to go before halftime, the Cardinal (20-1, 9-0 Pac-12 Conference) scored the final 12 points of the half to take a 43-25 lead into the break and went on a 12-0 spurt early in the second half to push the lead out to 30.
From there, Boyd scored her first basket and Cal (14-6, 6-3) made a furious charge that came up short.
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Date: May 21, 2009
by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor
Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board Chairwoman B.J. Webb addressed the Longboat Key Town Commission at its Thursday, May 21 regular workshop in an attempt for sign direction and help with removing what is perceived as excessive signage on Gulf of Mexico Drive.
Webb asked the commission if it was interested in using stimulus-package money to develop a comprehensive sign system that would allow for uniform signs at major locations, such as shopping centers.
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St. Denis also said the Florida Department of Transportation is moving so quickly with stimulus-fund projects, that town staff must submit a plan for new welcome signs and landscaping by next Wednesday.
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Coping with flu again this year? While there's no cure for flu, there are some natural and practical flu remedies you can use to ease flu symptoms. Here are some you can try today. (Keep in mind that the FDA and the American Academy of Pediatrics are concerned about the safety and effectiveness of over the counter cough and cold medicines in children, and manufacturers now have changed their labels to say not to use these products in children under 4.)
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"Hospitality is not at the margins of scripture. Jesus wasn't kidding around when he said, 'I was a stranger and you welcomed me,'" - Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, at the G92 South Immigration Conference at Samford University, Birmingham, AL. (Source: Reuters)
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Black Evangelicals, White Evangelicals, and Franklin Graham's Repentance
When Franklin Graham expressed doubts about President Obama's Christian faith during an interview on Morning Joe last week, it reminded me of an uncomfortable dinner I had in the late '90s.
I sat down for a pleasant meal in the home of two great friends — one of them a white evangelical faith leader deeply committed to social justice. Well into the evening's conversation — when we'd dropped all our pretenses and our exchanges moved well past mealtime niceties — one friend asked me something that caught me entirely off guard.
"Do you think Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Christian?" he said.
I was dumbstruck. I had never heard anyone actually ask that question before.
"Yes," I replied. "What would make you doubt that?"
As he explained, it became clear: My friend wasn't sure whether Dr. King was a Christian because King's Christianity didn't look like my friend's Christianity.
Dr. King valued justice. My friend valued justice.
King professed personal faith in Jesus. My friend professed personal faith in Jesus.
And yet my friend still was hung up about King's faith because, to his eye, King didn't seem interested in "evangelism" as my friend defined it — i.e. the practice of calling sinners into personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ, whose death on the cross is payment for our sins.
Twentieth-century white evangelical understanding of the Gospel guided (and in many ways defined) my friend's Christian walk. Therein lies the disconnect between his Christian faith and Dr. King's.
According to sociologists Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (authors of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America), only one thing separates white and black evangelicals, but it makes all the difference in the world: Vastly different experiences of structural and systemic oppression.
Black evangelicals have a long history of interaction with oppressive systems and structures. When African Americans read the Bible, they see the more than 2,000 passages of scripture about God's hatred for poverty and oppression. They see God's desire for systems and structures to be blessings to all of humanity — not a curse to some and a blessing for others.
And they see Jesus' own declaration that he had come to preach good news to the poor, which, by the way, is decidedly not a reference to the "spiritually impoverished." Jesus meant that he had come to preach good news (of liberation, freedom, and new life) to people trapped in material poverty.
White evangelicals generally do not experience such systemic oppression. According to Emerson and Smith, most white evangelicals don't prioritize or even see the thousands of references in the Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament about structural and systemic injustice.
Accordingly, the Gospel — and by extension their evangelism — is about only one thing: Personal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, who died for their sins, and a personal relationship with him.
Black evangelicals also have personal faith that Jesus' death paid for their sins, but their Gospel doesn't end with personal (and individual) salvation. For Dr. King and Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rev. John Perkins and Nelson Mandela and for hundreds of thousands of Black Christians around the world and for me, the good news of the Gospel is that Jesus' life, death, and resurrection were for the redemption of both individual souls and the redemption of whole societies.
Franklin Graham's father, Dr. Billy Graham, didn't always understand this, either. The elder Graham's revivals began as segregated affairs, but the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) agitated his conscience and he quickly course corrected. From that point on, Billy Graham never again held a segregated revival.
What's more, in 1957 Dr. Graham invited Dr. King, to share his pulpit for a 16-week revival in New York City.
For Billy Graham, Martin King was a Christian.
In the last decade or so, a new generation of white evangelicals — such as my friends Shane Claiborne, Kelly Moltzen, Josh Harper, and others — have intentionally displaced themselves, moving into impoverished communities of color in order to gain the experience their parents and grandparents lacked. As a result, their white evangelical eyes are open.
They see those 2,000 scriptures about poverty and injustice. And this new generation of white evangelicals is committed to fight systemic and structural justice because of the Gospel.
So, it grieved me to hear Franklin Graham's doubt-filled commentary on President Obama's faith.
Obama has described in his own words (and quite publicly) how he has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, how as a young community organizer in Chicago in the late '80s he walked down the aisle of a church during an altar call to make a public profession of that faith — a practice developed by one of the greatest American evangelists of all time, Charles Finney.
The president has clearly professed his belief that Jesus died on the cross as payment for his sins. And Obama repeatedly invokes the words of Jesus that guide his world view: "Just as you did to the least of these, you did to me." (Matthew 25:40)
For a moment, Franklin Graham's cynicism tested my own faith. I wondered if he had any idea that, when he questioned the president's faith, it felt as if he were questioning my faith.
I wanted to know if the transformational power of Jesus' death and resurrection, which is powerful enough to save our souls also could open Franklin's eyes and soften his heart to the world and experience of his black brothers and sisters.
Repentance is sweet, not only for the sinner, but also for the world. It reminds us all of what is right; what is good; what is true. Franklin Graham apologized for his comments and repented this week.
This public discussion is now a lesson for us all. I have an abiding hope that, just maybe, the power of Jesus' resurrection is powerful enough even to save the church.
Lisa Sharon Harper is the Director of Mobilizing at Sojourners. She is also co-author of Left, Right and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics and author of Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican ... or Democrat.
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