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Weekly Reflection: Reckoning and Resistance

This week marked the 5th anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, MN. It became a major inflection point that led to a time of "racial reckoning" in which national attention was paid to the reality of systemic racism in the history...

Weekly Reflection: Challenging the Myth of Malcolm and Martin

This week marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925). Many of us including most white people were taught to see him as the opposite of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the turbulent 1960's. Malcolm was portrayed as a...

Weekly Reflection: The Color of Refuge

The dictionary defines the word "refugee" as follows: "a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster." There are millions of refugees around the world who live in horrible conditions as they struggle to...

Weekly Reflection: Following in Their Footsteps

A major focus of the ministry of Cornelius Corps is to teach and reflect on the witness of the modern Civil Rights Movement as a resource for faith based nonviolent action for racial justice today. There has not been a time in the 24 year history of our ministry when...

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