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2025
Weekly Reflection: Fire From Heaven
Earlier this week, the Trump administration ordered the bombing of several sites in Iran related...
Weekly Reflection: Remember and Recommit
This week includes two milestones to remember in our nation's racial history. June 19 is our...
Weekly Reflection: James Meredith’s Legacy of Facing Fear
"Fear" is a word that is pervasive in our nation today. From immigrants and refugees (documented...
Weekly Reflection: Reckoning and Resistance
This week marked the 5th anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police officers in...
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,...
Weekly Reflection: The Color of Refuge
The dictionary defines the word "refugee" as follows: "a person who has been forced to leave their...
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...
Weekly Reflection: Walking the Way of Jesus
On Sunday Christians around the world celebrated Easter. In Rome an ailing and fragile Pope...
Weekly Reflection: Holy Week Injustice – Then and Now
This year the story of Holy Week resonates clearly with current realities in our nation. Holy Week...
Weekly Reflection: Christian Nationalism vs. Discipleship
Eighty years ago this week on April 9, 1945 the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Weekly Reflection: The Purpose of Prophets
It seems that every day there are new stories about chaos and trauma in our nation and around the...
Weekly Reflection: First They Came For…
A very disturbing video and news story came to light this week because of footage captured by a...
2024
Weekly Reflection: Paying the Price at the Polls
Earlier this week, my wife and I voted in this year's national election. The process of early...
Weekly Reflection: A Dangerous Dog Whistle
The term "dog whistle" has at least two different meanings. It refers to a kind of whistle used in...
Weekly Reflection: The Most Memorable Speech at the DNC
Political conventions are full of speeches by famous people. This week in Chicago, the Democtatic...
Weekly Reflection: The Power of Perseverance
Along with many others, I spent much of the last two weeks watching the Olympics in Paris. There...
Weekly Reflection: Happy 100th Birthday to an American Prophet
August 2 is the 100th birthday of the American prophet James Baldwin. In the Biblical tradition, a...
Weekly Reflection: Preemptive Nonviolence
Since the horrific assassination attempt against former President Trump that killed one man and...
Weekly Reflection: Civil Rights and Backlash
This month is the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous and important civil rights...
Weekly Reflection: The Fight for Freedom 1776 and 1964
Our best known and celebrated national holiday is The Fourth of July. On this date each summer, we...
Weekly Reflection: The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Comes Home
Last week our nation observed Juneteenth. It became our most recent national holiday in 2021. By...
Celebrating Juneteenth
This week our nation observed Juneteenth!! It was June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the...
Remembering Medgar Evers
June is a very significant month in the history of African Americans' long struggle for freedom....
Weekly Reflection: June – A Wedding Month For All
Traditionally June is known as a month for weddings. Yet for much of our nation's history, this...
2023
Weekly Reflection: How Dr. King Honored Veterans
Our nation recently celebrated Veteran’s Day that honors those who served in various branches of...
Weekly Reflection: Voices of Pain and Peace
This week marked one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in which around 1400 Israelis were...
Weekly Reflection: The Call for Ceasefire – Over There and Here
Even as the horrific violence escalates in the Israel-Hamas war, voices around the world are...
Weekly Reflection: “There Is Actually Love”
Ever since the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel on October 7, the stories of...
Weekly Reflection: The Horror and The Hope
For almost two weeks, news about violence and death in Israel-Palestine has dominated daily media...
Weekly Reflection: Holding On To Humanity
I was supposed to be in Israel-Palestine this week. Two days before our group was scheduled to...
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