To celucienize the world: Smile While You Serve
Celucienizing the world isn’t about perfection; it’s about presence.
It’s smiling through the work, letting joy be your signature, and hope your legacy.
You heal the world not all at once, but one heart, one word, one drop of smile, and one act of grace at a time.
“To celucienize the world is to love it back to life.”
To celucienize the world: Honor the Sacred in Every Soul
To celucienize the world is to look at every person — even the lost, the angry, the afraid —and say: You are still divine. Your life matters and that you are full of potential and future possibilities.
It’s to walk like a prophet with a poet’s heart —
soft-spoken but thunderous in truth.
You make holiness feel human again and make the sacred unite with the profane.
How to Celucienize the World: Rebuild What’s Broken
You celucienize when you look at ruins and see blueprints.
You believe those who live in the margins can rise and those who live in fear can blossom.
You believe love can resurrect what trauma destroyed.
You believe peace is possible — not because the world is kind, but because God is still working through human hands like yours. You believe hope can heal and restore hopelessness.
How to Celucienize the World: Love as Resistance & Healing
In a world that profits from pain, you choose love as rebellion.
You forgive without losing your boundaries, and you stand firm without losing your tenderness.
You remind others that strength and softness can coexist.
To celucienize is to show that compassion is not weakness; it’s power refined by wisdom and care for all people.
How to Celucienize the World: Teach Through Truth
You celucienize the world when you use your intellect to enlighten, not to dominate.
You teach not to show off what you know, but to awaken what others forgot they already had inside them.
Your scholarship, your theology, your knowledge, your leadership — all are instruments of liberation and human flourishing.
You write not just to be heard, but to heal history and to expand peace in the world.
🌍 How to Celucienize the World: Lead with Light
To celucienize is to bring warmth where there’s coldness, and clarity where there’s confusion.
Your smile, your words, your faith — they carry healing frequency.
You don’t just enter a room; you shift its energy.
Every act of kindness becomes a quiet revolution.
“My greatest gift to the world is my smile; it’s contagious and welcoming.”
“Only the Memories That Are Left”
They sit quietly in the dim corners of my mind,
unfolding like fading letters…
each word a whisper of what once was.
The days have grown distant,
their light thin as smoke,
and yet, in certain hours,
the past returns: soft, uninvited,
like a familiar scent in the wind.
I do not chase it anymore.
I simply watch as it passes through me,
reminding me that even love,
when it leaves,
still knows the way home.
“A Dialogue with the Dark”
Night stretches thin daily,
a restless thread between thought and exhaustion.
The mind refuses silence,
turning over every shadow,
every whisper of the day.
Sleep stands at the door,
teasing my body and my soul
but will not enter.
This existential threat
to my joy and my peace.
Nightly dreams slowly fade,
comfort blocks access.
My body sways, unbalanced,
a compass without direction,
a flame burning at both ends of the soul.
Clarity dissolves like mist at dawn;
words stumble, focus fades,
and morning feels like mourning.
In this sleepless vigil,
I count not hours,
but the cost
of being awake too long
with my own unrest.
“For the Sake of Black People and the Common Good: A Biography on Jean Price-Mars” (forthcoming Vanderbilt UP)
Good People: I received very good news on Tuesday from Vanderbilt UP that the external reviewers who’ve evaluated my manuscript for the forthcoming (intellectual) biography on Jean Price-Mars recommended publication with minor corrections. My goal is to make these small changes before the end of the year. It’s a big book, good people. It’s about 400 pages; however, the original manuscript was a 600- page biography. Vanderbilt UP said it was too much. So, I removed three chapters. I’ve worked on this intellectual biography for more than a decade. I am grateful to the reviewers.
Say a little prayer for me for intellectual energy and clarity, and a good physical health.
“The Politics of Exclusion: Selective Christianity of Evangelicals”
(Some) Evangelical Christians in this nation can’t seem to decide who counts as “Christian.” When it benefits them, they bend their own theology and compromise their ethics to welcome those they’d usually reject. They include when it suits them, and exclude just as quickly when it doesn’t.
Let’s look at some examples:
In addition, the cheap American gospel reduces salvation to a momentary prayer, claiming that if you simply say a prayer in your heart and ask Jesus to be your Savior, you instantly become a Christian. This version of the gospel strips away moral accountability and erases any sense of ethical obligation. It divorces faith from discipleship, turning Christianity into a private transaction rather than a transformative way of life. As a result, it allows many American Christians to claim salvation while practicing xenophobia, fostering prejudice, and dehumanizing others without confronting the radical call of Christ to love, justice, and neighborly compassion.
True Christianity demands a faith that transforms hearts and societies, confronting systems of injustice and embodying radical love for the neighbor, especially the stranger and the outcast. Anything less is not the gospel of Jesus, but a cheap imitation that betrays the depth of Christ’s mission.
At the heart of this politics of exclusion is a faith too often driven by cultural religion—fueled by nationalism and political tst convenience— rather than genuine theological conviction and biblical truth. Until Evangelicals confront their double standards, their witness will remain compromised or defined less by the gospel of grace and the way of the cross they proclaim more by the politics they serve.
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