Do you know what the following persons have in common: Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, Rev. James Lawson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, John Lewis, James Farmer, Joan Baez, and of course, C. T. Vivian? You are right if you said they all knew and were known by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They were all giants during the civil rights era in the United States of America and all of them outlived the leader […]
Read More »On June 16, 1858, future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous House Divided speech after he accepted the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for United States senator. People can be so fickle. An important source of social identity and self-esteem is a person’s sense of belonging to a group, (e.g., religious denomination, college, race, social class, political party, etc.) With an US versus THEM mentality. I see prejudice (negative attitudes), stereotypes (beliefs […]
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In 1975, after landing a job with a major corporation, Davida, a naive, divorced, twenty-six-year-old African-American accountant and her five-year-old daughter, Veda, relocate from South Carolina to Pennsylvania. Davida becomes enthralled with a God-sent, charismatic hunk, and sets out on an unimaginable faith journey as a minister’s wife, only to discover a veil between the pulpit and the pew.
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Read More »So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, […]
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