by corneliuscorps | Sep 25, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
The title of this post comes from Shane Claiborne in a YouTube video about the death penalty posted seven years ago. I refer to it today, because of an execution in Missouri on Tuesday evening. Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection after spending 24 years on...
by corneliuscorps | Sep 19, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
This week there have been numerous reports about the fallout from the baseless lies directed at Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH. Additional law enforcement was called in to address over 30 bomb threats that closed government buildings, public schools, and local...
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 | 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...
