by James Melson | Jul 29, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
My wife and I recently spent a wonderful week in Maine visiting long time friends and ministry colleagues. We left the high heat and humidity of Washington, DC for the cool clear summer days of coastal Maine. I expected that part of our trip. What I did not expect was...
by James Melson | Jul 5, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
Before the night time fireworks on July 4, I spent some of this year’s Independence Day at the Frederick Douglass House Historic Site in Washington, DC. This beautiful location known as Cedar Hill is where Frederick Douglass lived from 1870 to his death in...
by James Melson | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1: 8-9As part of the...
by James Melson | Jun 12, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
Today is the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Loving vs. Virginia. On this day fifty years ago, laws against interracial marriage were finally struck down. It took nine long years for that decision from the time Richard and Mildred Loving...
by James Melson | May 16, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
May 17 is the 63rd anniversary of the famous Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. That landmark of our nations’ legal history declared that racial segregation in public education is unconstitutional. It combined five cases from...
by James Melson | May 2, 2017 | 2017, Weekly Reflection
The District Church’s East Side and Columbia Heights Racial Justice Groups, in partnership with New Community Church, warmly invite you to a 4-part screening and discussion of the documentary 13TH. Directed by filmmaker Ava Duvernay, this award-winning documentary...
