Before & After Ferguson

Persons who are protesting the shooting of unarmed teenager, Mr. Michael Brown, Jr., are saying, “I can’t believe we’re here again, that we’re doing this again.”  Some are angry and even disappointed that they are seeing the same old seemingly race- based, race- driven stories and they are responding the same way, using the same words […]

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Can Christ Not Forgive The Sins of Race?

She asked for my forgiveness. Though she had not been involved in the plot, had not planted the box of dynamite or placed it under the steps of the church, though she was a child perhaps old enough to remember but not to act or fully understand, though I wasn’t even born as it was September 15, 1963, didn’t live […]

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Forgiving Race

“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.” ~ Euripides “He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.” ~ Proverb 17.9 The Christian life begins with forgiveness.  It is the entryway to God.  We come to know God through the reconciliatory […]

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