The Morning Blast: Continued Harassment in Ashe County Ashe County, North Carolina Exhaustion crept in. I resisted the urge to stop. I just wanted to get home. Every sign brought me closer and closer. I’d drive eleven hours to see my grandfather before his next chemo treatment. Though I’d do it all over again in a second, I needed sleep. Pulling up to our home…and barely taking the time to turn out the lights…I drug myself to... Read more
Based on his many friendships with police, it’s not hard to imagine that Jonathan Price was relieved to see the blue lights pull up. For some time, Price had been trying to help a woman who was being brutalized in a domestic situation. An officer that he did not know jumped out. Despite his best intentions to explain, Price was immediately a suspect/target. A short time later, he was dead. The hero quickly became the victim. Wolfe... Read more
There is No God. There is only God. : A Short Systematic. Confusion is all we know. In the beginning…God created. In the beginning…God birthed. In the beginning…God condemned. In the beginning…God rejected. The Genesis. In the Exodus…God saved. In the Exodus…God killed. In the Exodus…God led. In the Exodus…God commanded. The Exodus. In the Psalms…God protected. In the Psalms…God destroyed. In the... Read more
The Tree of Life: Remembering my Friend, Mitch Mitchell: Reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Earlier today, I delivered a brief electronic eulogy at his funeral. Death is not a respecter of persons. It comes for us all. Sooner or later, we will die. Of this we can be sure. Mitch Mitchell was not unaware of this fact. In fact, he embraced it. Every day, he treated each encounter as if it might be... Read more
Threats & Consequences at 3:20am: An Update from Ashe County It is the dead of night. I can’t sleep. I thought I had escaped living like this. Now, I know this will never be true. The clock ticks. The huge plate glass window seems to be my only comfort. The authors of various evils lurk in the darkness. I can hear their words. I know they’re close. They have been close since we got here. I thought that... Read more
There was a brush fire on Mount Horeb. Moses was stumbling around grazing some animals when God found him. The call was not soft. In fact, the call couldn’t have been much louder. Moses started to approach the noise. Was he going crazy? Could he trust such sounds? Was he hearing things? I don’t know that he knew. Honestly, I don’t know that he cared. I think the only thing that he was certain of is that he had... Read more
September 20, 2020 A Path for White Activists // A Celebration of the Life of The Rev. Robert (Bob) Graetz Impossible. One simply could not grow up in Atlanta without knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. We were the epicenter of it all. From the earliest of ages, I knew that something very special had happened in my hometown. First Grade. I was in the class of the first/only black teacher at my elementary school,... Read more
Ashe County, North Carolina: Racism Definitely Lives Here. You wouldn’t think it would matter that much…it does. For close to ten years, we lived in a place where all we had to do to dispose of our garbage was roll it down to the curb. Since we moved up in the mountains, we have to drive our garbage to a collection site. I probably go a couple of times per week. Interestingly enough, these collection sites can turn into... Read more
Perpetrator Shooting. Deputies Dying. Activists Cheering. : Where is God? * This post was written over the period of a couple of days / from the time that I found out about the shooting until now. Just a few hours ago, two deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were ambushed and shot multiple times in Compton. The deputies were sitting in their patrol car taking a break. Not long after the attack, two families were... Read more
Cancel Culture & the Gospel of Jesus Christ There once was a man named Matthew. The community hated him. Day and night he robbed them of their money. Though he called them taxes, they were really indulgences. To say that he was canceled would be an understatement. Most wanted nothing to do with him at all. The only people who stuck around were people who’d also been shunned. Then one day…a man named Jesus walked by. Drawn to... Read more
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