Tag: race and politics

Don’t Be Afraid To Talk About Race

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Today is Halloween though it may not feel like it. With the number of Coronavirus infections reaching its highest daily toll this week and the rate of infections on the rise in 47 states, it doesn’t just feel scary. It is. No ghouls or goblins but we wear masks because it’s scary outside. We don’t […]

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America needs an interim president

.Reading time 10 minutes.

America’s citizens are divided, nearly split down the middle when it comes to politics, our perspective on any number of issues and the current president.  Red and Blue States, there are no signs of anyone waving a white flag.  No signs of surrender.  No middle ground, there are only two sides.  Pick one. Some persons […]

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Seeing Christ and Satan in the 2012 Presidential Election

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Though the Democratic Party is represented by a donkey, its candidate should not be confused with the one who entered Jerusalem triumphantly on one.  I begin with this statement because it seems that I cannot say often enough the necessity of separating our racial allegiances from our profession of faith.  It is necessary that the […]

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I’m Dreaming of a White… President

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“He won’t be the brightest, perhaps, but he’ll be the whitest. And I’ll vote for that,” sings the Grammy award winning singer and songwriter. Randy Newman has written a song that addresses the issue of race in this presidential election and the debate over Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president.  The song and […]

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