Clenard Childress column
Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., is the senior pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ. He is the founder of the website Blackgenocide.org and president of Life Education And Resource Network, Northeast. LEARN is the largest African-American pro-life group in the US. Rev. Childress is a leader in social activism and partners with the Center For Bioethical Reform, taking the Genocide Awareness Projects to college campuses around the country.
Rev. Childress and his wife Regina have 4 children: Clenard, Thomas, Tonya, and Tia.
Rev. Childress and his wife Regina have 4 children: Clenard, Thomas, Tonya, and Tia.
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May 7, 2013
The trial of Philadelphia's most sadistic serial killer of all time is coming to a close in the City of Brotherly Love. Charged with seven counts of first . . .
Clenard Childress
February 22, 2013
In 2003, I wrote this essay to convey the prophetical insight of Dr. Martin Luther King's two most memorable speeches: "I Have A Dream" and "I've Been To The . . .
Clenard Childress
January 23, 2013
Forty years ago America began to wander aimlessly within the realm of the Culture of Death. The law of the land stated you could legally kill innocent children . . .
Clenard Childress
January 2, 2013
The heinous and unconscionable acts of violence witnessed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, remind us of the reality of the culture-of . . .
Clenard Childress
November 15, 2012
This is The Urban Prophet's translation of II Chronicles 7:14 for America today as we ponder our present state of affairs.
"If my people which are called by . . .
Clenard Childress
October 23, 2012
Without question we are at the precipice, the cusp, of the most significant presidential election of our Republic's history. There has never been an election . . .
Clenard Childress
August 7, 2012
It was recently reported that within a one year period in Afghanistan, there were 145 combat deaths, and in that same period in Chicago, there were 246 . . .
Clenard Childress
June 23, 2012
Former presidential candidate, Gary Bauer, and current president of, American Values, opined last month that, "No one would have predicted it, but President . . .
Clenard Childress
May 29, 2012
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in these recent years, has been everything but for the advancement of Colored People. Its . . .
Clenard Childress
May 23, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King's book, "A Stride Toward Freedom," was considered the handbook of the Civil Rights movement of the fifties and sixties. It was in this . . .
Clenard Childress
April 10, 2012
I had the privilege of being interviewed by Jonathan Coats, an Elder in Church Of God In Christ, and the host of the radio program, "Inside Politics," heard in . . .
Clenard Childress
April 6, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services actually offers very little to humans in the stage of their lives before birth. This present administration's lust . . .
Clenard Childress
February 19, 2012
The call which came from President Barack Obama to Bishop Timothy Nolan, on or near the eve of Roe Vs Wade, expresses the relentless efforts of his . . .
Clenard Childress
June 12, 2011
One of the more fascinating exchanges in Scripture which depicts the contemporary decorum of debate in our present-day culture is clearly seen when Jesus . . .
Clenard Childress
May 5, 2011
The 21st century has offered new challenges to the faith community and society. We are faced with social issues which have become increasingly more complex due . . .
Clenard Childress
April 27, 2011
On July 13th, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation passed, "An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, north west of the River . . .
Clenard Childress
March 29, 2011
Once again the ideologues of the of the Left are confronted with the reality of Truth and due to their frustrations with the logic of this Truth, resort to . . .
Clenard Childress
February 22, 2011
Writing in "Right to Life News" a beautiful document about our right to life, the Rev. Jessie Jackson asked an amazingly salient question which shouts across . . .
Clenard Childress
October 19, 2010
Prophetic voices point us to the future by causing us to remember and consider the cornerstone truths of our past — lessons learned though struggle and . . .
Clenard Childress
July 10, 2010
The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said: "That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us 'niggers.' . . .
Clenard Childress
June 28, 2010
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Court Justice, John Paul Stevens, has called the military ban on homosexuals, "a . . .
Clenard Childress
June 25, 2010
The chief cornerstone of truth by which Dr. Martin Luther King and others of the Civil Rights movement staked their claim for social justice is recorded in the . . .
Clenard Childress
February 12, 2010
The Plan? — "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities."
The Purpose? — "We . . .
Clenard Childress
January 7, 2010
The perpetual slide down the slippery slope of irrelevancy for the NAACP was never more clearly seen then when Julian Bond testified before the New Jersey State . . .
Clenard Childress
December 15, 2009
As an African American who has known both the pain and heartbreak of a centuries-long struggle for equality in this nation as well as the joy and exhilaration . . .
Clenard Childress
October 15, 2009
During the Democrat National Convention in Denver in 2008, I attended an Ecumenical Religious service where I heard Bishop Blake give one of the most stirring . . .
Clenard Childress
May 12, 2009
As I've written before, "The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety...." This quote from Rev. . . .
Clenard Childress
March 24, 2009
"That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. I believe that even amid today's mortar burst and whining bullets, there is hope for a . . .
Clenard Childress
March 9, 2009
As I write this, Obama has just signed an Executive Order lifting restrictions on Embryonic Stem Cell research, a move he said, rejects the "false choice" . . .
Clenard Childress
February 12, 2009
Oscar Grant, a young African-American male whose friends and acquaintances describe as a "peace maker" can be viewed on YouTube pleading with his friends to be . . .
Clenard Childress
December 30, 2008
Sixty-six percent of American citizens will celebrate Christmas this season as a religious holiday. It is the day of the year where the globe recognizes the . . .
Clenard Childress
November 19, 2008
The people in darkness will see a great light
Now is the time to ride the wave of the Spirit of social justice and free those who have been unlawfully . . .
Clenard Childress
November 13, 2008
Where do we go from here?
This is probably the most asked question presently in America since the end of the Civil War, but I am wondering: who is asking it . . .
Clenard Childress
October 28, 2008
I had the pleasure of meeting Gianna Jessen earlier this year at "Walk for Life San Francisco." Gianna's vibrant energetic personality is therapeutic. . . .
Clenard Childress
September 29, 2008
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In less than 35 days America will go to the polls and choose a President to lead them for the next four years. Never in our . . .
Clenard Childress
September 18, 2008
The stage is set. It's August 28th, 2008 and the timing couldn't be better. Everyone's expectations are running high. All eyes are focused on the democratic . . .
Clenard Childress
July 31, 2008
The Presidential campaign of 2008 has had more theatrics than Broadway could ever hope to produce. The invidious candor of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright; the . . .
Clenard Childress
July 19, 2008
Imagine for a moment you heard the following comments over the air waves or read them in your local newspaper. Would you consider this person to be a Racist?
. . .
Clenard Childress
May 10, 2008
"Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending . . .
Clenard Childress
April 14, 2008
Here are the birth statistics for African-American babies in the City of Philadelphia just a couple a years ago: 10,880 born, 9,259 aborted. Nearly half or 46% . . .
Clenard Childress
March 15, 2008
Revelations of eugenic ideology and the racist practices of Planned Parenthood are unfolding more and more.
The public is just beginning to believe what . . .
Clenard Childress
February 6, 2007
The Democratic Party has for years given lip service to the African-American community. They have talked about prominence without fulfilling the promise. They . . .
