From Civil War to Civil Rights

https://www.americanheritage.com/civil-war-civil-rights  

Electronic Village: The Education Startup Revolution

Electronic Village: The Education Startup Revolution: Young entrepreneurs take note : as the next post describes, jumping into the education space may be one of the smartest decisions in today’s...

“Cure or Painkiller”

 

The prophet Isaiah says that the Lord will be a stumbling block for
many, meaning that the majority of us will have difficulties living the
way we ought to. Working in the field of social justice only seems to
add another dimension to that difficulty. Poverty, economic inequality,
and eradicating racism, sexism, and the like are all issues
that "progressive Christians" care about, but how much do we really say
about how things got this way?

From my experience, the progressive Christian movement has shown that
it can advise its constituency on how to assist in uplifting burdened
communities, but I've noticed an absence in acknowledging what got us --
a collective "us" -- into places of suffering in the first place.

Effective movements all have two key elements: first is a thorough
understanding of the root causes of their issues in order to heal
whatever the "disease" may be. The other is an unrelenting commitment
to be a cure and not a treatment. Where we are right now in history
begs the question: Do we want 
a cure or just a painkiller?

 

Happy New Year 2022

 

Christmas 2021

 

Do Cops Make Us Safe?

https://www.essence.com/news/do-cops-make-us-safe/ 

America Is Still Reckoning With the Failures of Reconstruction

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-profound-demand-to-make-good-on-the-promises-of-freedom-180978924/ 

How Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/memphis-created-nations-innovative-public-library-180978844/ 

When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/when-black-history-is-unearthed-who-gets-to-speak-for-the-dead 

Inspiration

https://gentlemenstandard.com/the-standard/6/ 

The Spirit of Harmony

 

There are different ways of interpreting a piece of music. Players sometimes do a disservice to the composer through their lack of inspiration or by using a badly tuned instrument. But the highest priority in the hermeneutical art is an awareness of the spirit in which we are interpreting the word in question. Is this spirit in harmony, in resonance, with the Life that breathes in the text that we are trying to translate? Of course, we must also have a good instrument, knowledge, and a cultivated intelligence and feeling so as to perceive all the harmonics of this subtle text.

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/0

9/20/the-man-behind-critical-race-theory 

ADOPTION

https://www.gospelproject.com/adoption-video?emid=om:email:tgp:clandes-news-dec-762927&

ecid=812244162&bid=134253391