A conversation about the conversation
In recent months, from crisis to crisis, incident to incident, there’s been lots of talk about the need to have a conversation about race. But frankly, I’m not …
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No people can afford fear and ignorance
What dynamic, what utter force can twist the urgency of the human mind to not seek knowledge, and have fear of the normal process? One …
Let’s talk about laws, rules, and norms
The American Civil War is ongoing; battle lines more tightly drawn along race, gender, class, and less so, ideology. Just this past week I saw …
The Beauty of God’s Law
“The Law of The Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul, the statues of The Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.” ~ (Psalm 19:7 NIV) …
The ghost of Dred Scott still haunts
Slavery was America’s original sin. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” In fact in the original draft …
DOJ findings in Ferguson: sobering but not surprising
A grieving African-American father hovers over the body of his son who was shot by a white police officer who thought the young man had …
Bloody Sunday – Selma, 50 years later
On March 7, 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy (both deceased), a young John Lewis, now a Democratic Congressman, a …
The Color Purple and Lent
The stage production of writer Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple being presented in South Florida now during Lent has a strange but wonderful irony. …