The thirty- fourth psalm is an oldie but goodie. Its introduction used at the start of countless worship services: “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth” (34.1). It is truth and aspiration. We should bless the Lord all the time but we don’t. It’s easier to […]
“We like to buy certainty and take home our little boxes — because we like to check out people andcheck off our little boxes. But the thing is: Truth isn’t found in trite boxes — Truth’s found in the richness of Christ. Truth doesn’t come marked as simplicity — Truth comes marked with the fullness of grace, or it isn’t Truth. Truth is a Person and He […]
“The day after returning from anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa, Israel’s first Ethiopian-born Knesset member Pnina Tamano-Shata (Yesh Atid), had her blood refused in a government donation drive because she is African. Volunteers at a Magen David Adom (Red Star of David—Israel’s Red Cross) booth set up inside of Knesset told Tamano […]
It’s amazing the transformation that the United States of America has undergone in such a short span of time. Once an outwardly segregationist empire, capitalism has changed the way that we do business. There are inter-cultural services being offered and businesses owned by persons of various cultural backgrounds share the same block and sometimes building […]
There is no such thing as a good or true stereotype. A stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” It is “an image perpetuated without change” that may or may not be based in an actual experience. It is a “solid […]