by corneliuscorps | Sep 4, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
Last week August 28 marked the anniversaries of two major events in the modern Civil Rights Movement that happened eight years apart. On August 28, 1955 fourteen year old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi while visiting family there. The Black teenager...
by corneliuscorps | Aug 21, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Political conventions are full of speeches by famous people. This week in Chicago, the Democtatic National Convention is no exception. Yet perhaps the most memorable speech at any DNC happened 60 years ago this week in Atlantic City, NJ. It was not a prime time...
by corneliuscorps | Aug 14, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Along with many others, I spent much of the last two weeks watching the Olympics in Paris. There were so many interesting and compelling events and athletes. Yet it was the last athlete in the last event that touched and inspired millions of viewers in an unexpected...
by corneliuscorps | Aug 8, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
On this week 60 years ago, the bodies of three civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi. James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were part of the 1964 campaign known as Freedom Summer that brought hundreds of college age...
by corneliuscorps | Aug 1, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
August 2 is the 100th birthday of the American prophet James Baldwin. In the Biblical tradition, a prophet was not primarily someone who foretold the future. Rather the prophet was a person called by God to speak the word of God into a particular historical context....
