by James Melson | Aug 10, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
Ground Zero in Hiroshima August 6, 1945 Cathedral of St. Mary in Nagasaki Destroyed by the Atomic Bomb August 9, 1945 This past week, numbers of deaths too many to imagine were cited in two very different news stories. One is the current and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic....
by James Melson | Aug 3, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
Last Thursday was the funeral of John Lewis at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. It was an inspiring time of song, prayer, and numerous moving eulogies including past Presidents and the Rev. James Lawson who was the preeminent teacher of...
by James Melson | Jul 27, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
On Sunday there was a deeply moving and inspirational scene on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL. The flag draped casket of John Lewis was carried across the bridge on a horse drawn carriage. This was the same place where he and other peaceful civil...
by James Melson | Jul 20, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
This past Friday two of the great witnesses for racial justice in the history of our nation finished their journey of life and faith – CT Vivian and John Lewis. Both men were deeply committed disciples of Jesus who embodied Jesus’ way of self-sacrificial,...
by James Melson | Jul 12, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
ICU nurse Ciana Boardman, 24, (center) wishes more young people would do all they could to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Here, she and her fellow nurses gear up in “bunny suits” to treat patients with COVID-19. (COURTESY OF TIMOTHY CROCKER)During this...
by James Melson | Jul 6, 2020 | 2020, Weekly Reflection
Over the weekend, President Trump held a rally at Mount Rushmore in the middle of a pandemic. A crowd of around 7,500 people, almost everyone without masks and sitting close to each other, listened to a speech in which the President spent most of the time denouncing...
