jeff obafemi carr: the media scientist

check out the above video message from yours truly, unscripted and real. if you’re in Nashville, come check out the latest two events i have coming up in the next several days. help me make a difference, like you always do. and talk to me!! :-) love you all. joc www.theamunratheatre.org for Tickets!

a human being is dead half a world away, and in America, people are dancing in the streets. a history-making President gives a statement of resolve from the white house and his words are analyzed and dissected. a man and a woman from Podunk towns, each lacking in formal education, raise 3 children successfully. what [...]

COM>SOL+SOS Write it down. Highlight it. Memorize it. I guarantee it’ll change your life. My father, Haywood Haskell Carr, was a rich man, spiritually speaking. The oldest of 11 children born to sharecroppers in East Tennessee, and armed with a 6th-grade education, my father embarked upon the journey of life with a sense of wonder [...]

i’ve not celebrated Valentine’s Day in over 20 years, and my love life has been all the better for it. in that time, i’ve lost count of the dates i’ve had, not counting serious relationships, but one thing i can say for sure: my women have been glad i don’t get into it. i don’t [...]

i’ve got almost 18 years clean from punching a clock to survive. working as an artist is still a matter of getting up every morning and deciding what parts of you you’re willing to share with the world to express your gift and feed your family. it’s a matter of facing the fearfulness the world [...]

i got back on Thursday from a phenomenal trip to the West Coast. i had a great time kicking off the speaker’s series on Religious Pluralism at the Claremont School of Theology, where my good friend and scholar i’d love to be Dr. Monica A. Coleman is a professor and coordinator of the fascinating series. [...]

well, maybe not chill, as much as…change. for the last decade, i’ve spent a majority of my time in the Music City, Nashville, TN. it’s my home, having grown up running around South Nashville chasing friends and eventually girls, flunking out of classes until i got my mind right, and finding my purpose and mission [...]

i used to wonder if i was growing to be a snob about certain things, like nitty-gritty details of administrative work. after a trip back from the post office a while ago, though, i realize: i’m still not scared of doing what some people tell me should be “beneath me.” i was at the post [...]

i wrote Leave God Alone to express the feelings of many people i met who have become disenfranchised with church and it’s dogmatic and rigid ways.  i did not write this book to tell people to turn their backs on God, to kick preachers in their butts, or to stop loving one another.  on the [...]

Our internet access is gone for now. Our guide says it’s starting to get bad out there. Our host says he’s seeing riots near the city. I’m thumbing this on my cellphone on a signal from who knows where. The Presidential candidates (13 of them) have asked to annul the election and people are protesting [...]