Now that I’ve resumed making pastoral visits for a local church, I find myself looking for inspiration that will sustain me in this work. Most of my visits or phone calls are to church members who are not in the immediate crisis of a hospitalization, but are plugging along in retirement communities or caring …
I’ve made slight changes to this sermon that I first preached in LaGrange, Georgia in the summer of 2016. Its emphasis is on America’s embrace of all sorts and conditions of humanity, a theme that is especially important in deeply polarized America.
THE CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE has influenced my spiritual life more than any other book. Now nearing 40 years in print, this readable and challenging book has opened the door for millions to walk the narrow, upward path that leads to life. Out of the blue last week I got a chance to meet its author, Richard Foster, and to be reminded of his powerful book.
This post is a brief summary of the essential points in Ibram X. Kendi’s, Stamped from the Beginning, which is an encyclopedic history of racist ideas in America.
This is an infographic, which attempts to depict how the conditions of slavery, though it has been abolished, have persisted into the present. It is designed for students and people unfamiliar with the idea that African-descent people in America continue to be re-enslaved in subtle and overt ways. The idea of slavery’s “afterlife” is derives from the work of social scientis
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This novel, Nellie Norton, is a famous example of pro-slavery literature in the pre-Civil War South. I never would have guessed that I have learned a great about the South and anti-Black thinking by reading the entire story. It was interesting enough that I wanted to write about it. I don’t buy its conclusions at all. What puzzled me is why the author wrote the book and who was his target audience. For me , this novel has shed a revealing light on Southern culture and racist ideas.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. …
