via EEWMagazine: Communication is one of the earliest skills you learn in life—but communicating effectively is a bit harder for people to grasp. Disagreements would be settled faster, points would be made quicker, misunderstandings would be rapidly cleared up, and unnecessary tension caused by verbal assault would be avoided if we learned how to make […]
I’ll admit it: I like being right and sometimes (well, honestly, most times) when someone tells me I’m not, it stings a little… okay, a lot. When I was younger, I was known for my stubbornness and reluctance to apologize. But as I got older, I discovered that behavior was sabotaging my relationships, which is […]
*Houston hip-hop artist Lecrae never censors his spirituality, and frequently raps about faith, race and cultural change. In an essay penned for Billboard, the Christian rapper let his thoughts flow about the country’s current state of turmoil following the police involved deaths of two black men: Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando […]
The “Champ,” the one that my generation called, “The Greatest,” a boxer extraordinaire, social commentator, a hero to many, a bigger than life icon whose athletic prowess set an entirely new paradigm has passed away. I will always remember meeting him in Beverly Hills. He teasingly made as if he were boxing me […]
When she’s not inspiring people with her music, gospel star Erica Campbell is the first lady of a church who’s warning people against having an inconsistent relationship with God. “Be consistent with God,” Campbell tweeted on Sunday. “Don’t be a part time Christian and pray only when things are going bad and you’re in […]
Marvin Sapp shared moving words this morning . Here is what he posted this morning. My plane landed in Houston TX 4 years ago today and I received the worst news of my life. 4 years ago today my life changed and for me was not for the better. You transitioned from this life to […]
Prosecutor Steve Parks of Delta County, Michigan, says he’s pushed for more than a decade to have Merriam-Webster recognize the word Yooper, a longtime resident of the Lake Superior region. Now Yooper and 149 other words or phrases have been added to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Many of the other […]
There is a Whitney Houston biopic in the works, but no one has been cast yet. AV asks callers in today’s AV’s Say What who they thought would…
Remember words and phrases you use to use back in the day? Well, AV asks callers in today’s AV’s Say What what are some they would never use today.…
Malinda and I had dreams. They were real, tangible and obtainable as family and as a couple. We started that way. When MaLinda and I started dating 20 years ago, the first question that we asked each other was where we see ourselves in 5 years. As the meal and the conversation progressed, we circled […]
My wife MaLinda had a slogan, keep it moving, which she spoke to everyone. It was an admonishment about not being lackadaisical, slow or slothful towards any aspect of life. She wanted people to seize each moment we’re presented with and not wait for the next day or the next opportunity. She was a big […]
Contrary to popular opinion, forgiveness is innate and unforgiveness is learned from our environment, says T.D. Jakes, pastor of the 30,000-member The Potter’s House in Dallas and New York Times bestselling author. “We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. We […]
