The Boy Scouts of America announced last week that the organization will now accept girls as members, thus ending the uniqueness of this iconic institution. Many commentators have lamented the moral decline of the Boy Scouts, seen in the organization’s steady capitulation to the ideology of the sexual revolution. But there is something deeper going on here, and it goes beyond one’s views of sexual morality. The Path of Wisdom and Virtue The Boy Scouts offered a pathway toward manhood, a … [Read more...]
Unashamed outsider: Lecrae
NASHVILLE (BP) – Is this “the year of black memoir?” Imani Perry, professor of African American studies at Princeton, thinks so, and she places recent books like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” and Clifford Thompson’s “Twin of Blackness” squarely in the black literary tradition. People, however, may read such memoirs as representing all of black thought. “Telling one’s story is one’s story,” Perry reminds, not a prototype you can foist on all the people in a group. But this … [Read more...]