We have a new name

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.  It is the only true guide you will ever have.  And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” ~ […]

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Remembering King Nonviolently

“‘You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”  But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also. …” ~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 5.38-39, NRSV Today, persons across our nation and around […]

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Except Me

3 Soon Daniel distinguished himself above all the other presidents and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom. 4 So the presidents and the satraps tried to find grounds for complaint against Daniel in connection with the kingdom. But they could find no grounds for complaint […]

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Do you have a dream?

In just a few days, persons around our nation will gather to remember the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his purpose- driven life and hate- motivated death, to reflect on the historic Civil Rights Movement and hear from its central surviving figures and to reevaluate America’s progress as it relates to the socially constructed […]

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Tiger Mom Says She’s Queen of the Jungle

She calls herself the “Tiger Mom.” Amy Chua once suggested that Chinese mothers were better than mothers of other cultures.  Now, she has raised the stakes and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, has joined her this time in a book titled The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in […]

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