Declining the invitation to hate

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a pastor, civil rights leader and martyr, said this in 1958, “A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him.” Jagmeet […]

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After the death of Philando Castile: What will we preach?

More videos have been released after a jury decided that the officer who shot and killed Mr. Philando Castile was not guilty of any charges.  A jury of his peers decided he did nothing wrong.  Mr. Castile is dead and this is just standard police training.  What’s most important is that the officer made it […]

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I am afraid

I am afraid of mediocrity, of its acceptable sustainability, of just enough life, of barely being me.  No, I want life abundantly. I am afraid of people who accept me as I am– without questions of provocation, the sharing of inspiration, the passing along of missing information. I am afraid that I will not use […]

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The Survey Says: Anxious Americans

The American Values Survey was released yesterday.  Conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, the yearly survey reports that Americans are anxious about a lot of things.  The Religion News Service highlighted the findings  and they are scary.  Apparently, we are worried about money, race, religion, specifically Islam and immigration especially in terms of the […]

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#PrayforParis

The unthinkable has happened.  While there is talk that the Russian plane that crashed in Sinai, Egypt last month was due to a bomb placed onboard by terrorists, it has been confirmed that ISIS or ISIL has taken the lives of 129 people and many more have been injured due to multiple attacks in Paris, […]

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