Crishuana & Co.

Author: Crishna

  • on being acknowledged.

    on being acknowledged.

    I became a librarian to facilitate original scholarship that builds out complexity of the historical record.

    Noble_and_Independent_Course-AcknowledgementSome time ago, as a Dartmouth College Lathem Fellow at Rauner Special Collections Library, I got to build on some of my undergrad research assisting Dr. Woody Lee on his Rev. Edward Mitchell, ’28 project. Dr. Lee had an a suspicion that Rev. Mitchell was potentially the first admitted black student in the Ivy league and I, too, was curious to find out if was true.

    Imagine my excitement to find out that 5 years later, Dr. Lee’s project has birthed into a full work: Lee, F. A., & Pringle, J. S. (2018). A Noble and Independent Course: The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell. Dartmouth College Press. [WorldCat]
    For purchase from University Press of New England: https://www.upne.com/1512602845.html

    Many congrats, Woody!

    For more information on Dr. Lee’s research, watch his 35-minute presentation “Ivy League Pioneers: Black Students at Dartmouth, 1775–1950″ (2015) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EGynO2uDc

  • urban apologist, Ernest Grant x Ancient African Christianity

    urban apologist, Ernest Grant x Ancient African Christianity

    ERNEST CLEO GRANT II
    JANUARY 18, 2018
    Christianity Today | January 2018 Issue 

    “It’s ironic that as I crossed
    the Walt Whitman Bridge
    to attend
    an urban apologetics conference
    in Philadelphia”

    I encountered the very religious pluralism
    that makes conferences such as these a necessity.

    As my weathered SUV pulled up to the stoplight,
    I could see the Marcus Garvey–inspired
    Pan-African flag pirouetting in the wind,
    and I…

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  • on freedom x forgiveness

    on freedom x forgiveness

    Biblical Principles of forgiveness

    in three parts

    A Selection from UTENZI WA ADILI
    by Swahili poet Shaaban Robert:

    “For the benefit of his son, original form is made up of 100 verses.

    Ni tone samahani,
    La asali moyoni,
    Hutia furahani,
    Mpewas na atoaye.

    Forgivness is a drop
    Of honey in the heart,
    Happiness it brings
    To the bestower and the bestowed alike.”

    Sometimes, I forget my original purpose, the thrust of my complete devotion to the Christian walk: liberation.

    More than a future foot tattoo, but a full and complete way of being:

    to be liberated.

    Overcoming the generational bondage of my family,
    my ancestors,
    and my People,

    I am compelled to walk with my Jesus.

    I walk,
    knowing that this life I have been given is not my own,
    but a testament to the liberating power of the Almighty.

    Everyday my prayer is that my life be an example,
    “a living epistle”
    of overcoming all earthly, carnal, material shackles
    to live free.
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