by corneliuscorps | Oct 3, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Earlier this week, my wife and I voted in this year’s national election. The process of early voting at our polling place in Virginia was quick and easy. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. Yet 61 years ago during the first week of October, it was a...
by corneliuscorps | Sep 12, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
The term “dog whistle” has at least two different meanings. It refers to a kind of whistle used in training dogs that emits a high pitched sound that is inaudible to humans. Politically “a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in...
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 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....
by corneliuscorps | Jul 18, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Since the horrific assassination attempt against former President Trump that killed one man and wounded two others, politicians and the media call for us to dial back the heated rhetoric that has characterized our political environment for nearly a decade. It seems...
