People yelled as they witnessed a man being assaulted. Most of us have seen the video of a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight. Video and news story A very few, as some usually do, blame the victim for not complying with the demands of corporate employees or the men with guns. We still don’t know all the details. Witnesses on the flight say they were offered $800, United claims they offered $1,000, to surrender their seats. The... Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the first faces of the Black Lives Matter movement. The radical right who annually parrot empty platitudes about King for his birthday would reject him if he were alive today. Read more
Matthew 21:1-11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.” 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the... Read more
Most of us are refugees in someway. Many are emotional or spiritual refugees, as distant and isolated from others as physical refugees are removed from homelands. We are separated from feeling our own pain, refugees rejecting our own emotions. Unaware of how or why we feel what we feel. When we don’t know who we are, it’s easier to emotionally separate from others in need. Some white men lord over the culture and society they were born into like roosters... Read more
Not since the Reformation has the choice been so clear. On one side, Christians who read the red letters of the Bible and find in the teachings of Jesus a call to help the poor, support widows, orphans and aliens, and to respond with love, above all else. And on the other side, Christians who make excuses in their faith to justify beliefs. These Republican Christians invest their faith in “but” theology. “I agree Jesus says that,” Republican Christians say,... Read more
Note: This isn’t the sort of thing I usually write on this site. But, here it is. A day on Walton’s Mountain Thousands traveled to remote Schuyler, Virginia this weekend for the Waltons 45th Anniversary Reunion. From more than a dozen states fans made the pilgrimage to the hometown of Waltons creator Earl Hamner, Jr. to remember the hear-warming drama set during the Great Depression and WW II. The family program about life in a small Virginia town aired from... Read more
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