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The Widow’s Secret: How Your ‘Not Enough’ Becomes More Than Enough (2 Kings 4:1-7)
When the World Feels Out of Control I don’t know about you, but to me, there is much to be concerned about these days. Gone are the days when news was given in thirty minute blocks in the evening. If you missed David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite on the evening news, you were out of…
What Do You Have? Resisting the Spirit of Helplessness
I don’t know about you, but to me, there is much to be concerned about these days. Gone are the days when news was given in thirty minute blocks in the evening. If you missed David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite on the evening news, you were out of luck unless you took in the newspaper.…
Today’s Quote – Octavia Butler
from Parable of the Talents (1998)
A Nation Out of Plumb: Prophetic Warnings in the Age of Trump
“This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’ ‘A plumb line,’ I replied. Then the Lord said, ‘Look, I am setting a plumb line among my…
Lessons from the Holocaust: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes?
Several years ago I participated in a class called The Human Spirit and the Liberal Arts. This post is inspired by a lecture by the lecture on History and a paper that I wrote for this class on the Holocaust. The Moral Lessons of History: From the Holocaust to Today’s Frontline Much has been written…
“Between Legal Briefs and Hymns: The Double Consciousness of Black Liberation”
The Legal Genius Behind Brown v. Board of Education When Thurgood Marshall stood before the Supreme Court in 1954 to argue Brown v. Board of Education, he relied on a legal foundation built by Dr. Pauli Murray. Yet, for many, her name remains unfamiliar. A groundbreaking lawyer, activist, writer, and later an Episcopal priest, Pauli…
PHAROAH ALWAYS CHANGES HIS MIND
The Cyclical Struggle for Black Freedom A Daughter of the South I am a daughter of the South. I have always been aware of the precarious nature of civil rights for Black Americans. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, just three years before I was born. In 1984, I was a delegate to…
Trump and Musk: Shock Doctrine in Action
My daughter is studying environmental science and geography and she is a budding environmental justice activist. Occasionally, we will sit together and watch videos or read articles that she has been assigned in her college classes. A few months ago, we watched a video on youtube called Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. As…
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