Anybody that knows me, knows that I am a book rat. I hang out in bookstores and half price books is my favorite hangout. I would do commercials if they would let me. Needless to say, in my rumbling of books today, I found a copy of Bishop Thomas Weeks' book Teach Me How to Love You. A few years ago, Bishop Weeks and Prophetess Juanita Bynum were the talk of the Black Church community. They married and had an elaborate wedding ceremony. They wrote books and held conferences. Only for it all to end one night at a hotel out somewhere near Atlanta. I held the book in my hand which was going for a mere 2 bucks and thought to myself. Nah, how good could it had been. I put it down and chose a few other books to add to my library. Funny how time goes on. Bishop Weeks has married another woman and Prophetess Bynum has dropped her married name and added a II. My pastor once remarked to me that happiness is predicated on situations and circumstances. Too bad situations and circumstances caused the end of a what some thought would be a powerful union.
There is a new movie out based loosely on the Steve Harvey book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. I have read the book. It is a pretty good read. Entertaining and honest. Notice, I didn't say truthful. There is a lot wrong with the title, let alone the book. For a Christian sister, it can be decieving. After all, Steve Harvey has been on TBN, he is friends with Bishop T.D. Jakes. The idea of a woman having to think like a man is disturbing for no other reason than it contridicts what God would have a woman to think. I get what Steve is saying. However, its not what God wants. The women of the world are eating it up. However, divorce rates remain the same among Christians and non-Christians, so lets not act as if this book is really the solution for women. By the way, while I am here let me ask one last question. "Steve and all of your fans, while the women are actiing like ladies and thinking like men, how are the men supposed act like and think like?"
