The Washington Post looks at “The politics of race and religion in two pie charts” and provides a summary of the results of a study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life while examining the stereotypes affiliated with both parties. Is there a connection between the social construct ofo race and one’s party affiliation? […]
“As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone and its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children’s […]
The New York Daily News reports that First Lady Michelle Obama’s face was superimposed onto a famous painting of a former French slave and placed on the August 2012 cover of a Spanish magazine, Fuera de Serie. Though she is praised as “great woman” in the article, some say that the image is an expression of racism. […]
Christopher Emdin of The Huffington Post discusses the problems with the American image, the “American dream” and the “American way” in light of the recent murders at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and links it to the Trayvon Martin case in “Turbans, Hoodies and Misdirected Microaggression.” So, to be American means to be made in whose image?
“It is he who made us and not we ourselves.” ~Psalm 100.3 There are no self- made persons. We, as human beings, do not have that ability neither will we ever develop it. This capacity to be self- existent, to have one’s origin be one’s own hands can only be attributed to God. While this […]