Racism Makes You Look Older

Apparently, racism is not good for your faith or your health.  Reported on the Forbes  website, “the study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that African American men who reported racial discrimination and had internalized an anti-Black bias had telomeres on an average of 140 base pairs shorter, considered to correlate with 1.4 to […]

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Will you agree with me?

“Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.” Matthew 18.19, NRSV Agreements.  We make them and unfortunately, we break them.  We sign agreements and sometimes, we wish that we could erase our names.  Coming to an […]

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I Believe I’ll Run On (Part Two)

“I believe I’ll run on/ see what the end ‘gone be/ I’ll believe I’ll run on/ see what the end gone be” “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the […]

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A New Life Resolution

“One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after; to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” ~ Psalm 27.4, NRSV Well, it’s that time of year again—the end of it.  And it […]

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2013 In Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many […]

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