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2026
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2025
Weekly Reflection: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Just a few days after our July 4th national independence day holiday, a disturbing and...
Weekly Reflection: What To The Asylum Seeker Is The 4th of July?
As we commemorate the 4th of July this year, I invite us to make a connection between 1852 and...
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: The Dangerous Definition of “Dangerous Criminal”
The Trump administration began its second term with the promise to deport "dangerous criminals"...
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...
2024
Weekly Reflection: Memorial Day DNB
This week our nation observed Memorial Day, a time to remember those who lost their lives in our...
Weekly Reflection: The Power of Kinship in Divisive Times
During these times characterized by daily reports of division, fear, and hatred, I came across a...
Weekly Reflection: Brown at 70 – Celebrate and Lament
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that...
Weekly Reflection: Terrorism on Mother’s Day
This Sunday is Mother's Day. It is a time to honor and remember the nurturing love of our...
Weekly Reflection: The Right to Protest for Right
The protests about the Israel-Gaza war on college campuses around the country continue to be a...
Compromising Freedom
Sometimes lesser known parts of our nation's history have major impacts on the legacy of racial...
Weekly Reflection: From Condemned Convict to City Council
Thirty five years ago on April 19, 1989, a woman was brutally beaten and raped in New York City's...
Weekly Reflection: Before Martin There Was Marian
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC was the site of one of the best known events in the...
Weekly Reflection: Pleas for Peace Then and Now
Fifty seven years ago this week on April 4, 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the...
Weekly Reflection: Breaking the Cycle of Violence and Hatred
During this Holy Week, Christians in this country and around the world commemorate the suffering,...
Weekly Reflection: An Infamous Anniversary
100 years ago this week, Virginia passed an infamous piece of legislation called “The Racial...
Weekly Reflection: The Double Struggle
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the contributions of women who engaged in the struggle...
2023
Weekly Reflection: The Choice Between Bull and Jackie
For baseball fans, October brings the excitement of the Major League playoffs culminating in the...
Weekly Reflection: How Long Does It Hurt?
The old black and white pictures from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s seem like...
Weekly Reflection: “The Uncomfortable Lessons Often Teach Us the Most”
Last week many people around our nation paused to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the bombing...
Weekly Reflection: “We All Did It”
This week on September 15 is the 60th anniversary of one of the most horrific events of the modern...
Weekly Reflection: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Economic Justice
Monday of this week was Labor Day. For most people in our society, this holiday has come to mean...
Weekly Reflection: King’s Dream – Recommitting or Retreating?
On Monday of this week, the nation observed the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for...
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