September 1, 1989 September 1, 1989 in Brooklyn, NY – a tragedy that I trusted was a tipping point. It was the day before my 21st birthday, and I was mad as hell. The movie of the year for me was Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee. The song regularly playing on my Walkman...
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Sometimes you tear up the publication schedule. Given COVID19, we had an article on loneliness by Molly Wicker planned for this week, and given our emphasis on Vocation, we had an article about the New Testament and Doomsday Approaches by Bruce Lowe scheduled for next week. Those are now pushed back a week or two...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wisely observed that the most segregated parts of the American week were Sunday Mornings. Despite his exhortations to bring different races together, this is largely still true today, and the effects are tragic.
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I participated in my very first “Locked In Solidarity” (LIS) on Thursday, February 11, 2016 (see #LIS16). LIS is a national prayer vigil for the mass incarcerated. Nearly forty people met in a small downtown Christ Community Church (Kansas City, MO) to lament our broken criminal justice system and to pray for a powerful move...
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