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Weekly Reflection: Dismantling the Fog Again

On Feb. 23, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the keynote at Carnegie Hall to honor the 100th birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois. In his speech, he identified the primary obstacle to freedom: a “poisonous fog of lies.” This fog was a deliberate myth of inferiority,...

Weekly Reflection: Black History – Embraced or Erased?

This year Black History Month is a time of both celebration and apprehension. We celebrate the 100th anniversary of the origins of Black History Month. The scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson developed Black History Week as a time to lift up the accomplishments...

Weekly Reflection: Practicing Peace

This week a group of Buddhist monks completed their Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, DC. Along the way, millions of people came out to see them and to experience this amazing witness for peace even as our nation continues to be bitterly divided....

A Resistance Songbook Emerges

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. Fear not, for I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33, ESV). This declaration of Jesus was made to his disciples on the eve of his tribulation.   Since then,...

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