Have you read my memoir? Here's a piece of it from the chapter called "Making My Mind, Mind." Though I could not completely avoid the nagging voices of depression and despair, I began to block this โstinking thinkingโ by trying to โfix [my] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and …
New Creation People for the New Creation
Have you run across the internet meme: โNo one is coming!โ? In other words, the world is messed up and help is not on the way. Donโt get your hopes up. No hero is coming to rescue us. I can't agree with that. Someone is coming. I don't know when. It might be today or …
I Was a Stranger
This is an excerpt of a heart-wrenching letter written by detainees at the infamous Delany Hall Detention Center in New Jersey. Here's the link to the remainder of it. By means of the present, we take the liberty of providing an account of the situation that thousands of immigrants are living in detention centers. In …
The Tragedy of the Selective Application of Moral Outrage
Criticizing the President and CEO of the great humanitarian organization called Samaritanโs Purse, not to mention heโs the son of the 20th centuryโs most prolific evangelist, is by definition dancing with danger. But I do have a bone to pick with Brother Franklin Graham, and to be honest, itโs the same bone Iโve been picking …
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Prayer as a Subversive Act
In a sense, all prayer is a subversive act, as it challenges unjust systems and dethrones the โrulers of the darkness of this worldโ that animate those systems. Those who pray with hunger for righteousness recognize how the singular rule of the โKing of all other kings and Lord of all other lordsโ subverts the …
