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So Loved….
For God so loved the world… That God created the heavens and the earth….. So loved the world that a wind from God swept over the face of the deep… So loved the world that God imagined light and evening and day… So loved the world that God found a place for water and sky…
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Wake Forest Divinity School
Bill J. Leonard Distinguished Service Award No words – just a remix on W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Prayer for Persistence” “Yet with joy – the prayer of our souls is a petition for persistence; not for the one good deed, not just for our single lives, or the one single thought – but deed upon deed,…
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It’s Your House: Protect the Children
Children deserve safety and our protection. All children. Everywhere. I’m spending this day with my family and community. It’s not “Thanksgiving” for me – it’s “we have the day off so we are going to enjoy each other” day. If you have children be coming to your home, it’s your responsibility to protect them. You…
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A Prayer
The post reflects on the mistreatment of Haitian immigrants and refugees, highlighting instances of neglect and abuse. It questions the lack of empathy and justice in the treatment of these individuals and ends with a prayer of exhaustion.
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The Journey to Healed.
Emma Jordan-Simpson Healing doesn’t mean that there was never any damage, that the damage didn’t hurt us, didn’t bring us to our knees, or didn’t make us wonder if we would make it through the night. Healing doesn’t mean that God was alright with the wound, that God didn’t howl in distress With-Us. Healing doesn’t…
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For O’Shae Sibley
Emma Jordan-Simpson O’Shae Sibley vogued. Laughed. Felt the kind of joy with friendsthat leads one to dance, dance, dance. We can have a world – this one right here – where it is the norm for gay people to dance every time they felt the spirit moving in their hearts, we keep praying. But the…
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Screaming Like Rachel: Ralph Yarl
Blackness is not America’s problem.
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Repost: Finding Life in the God-Story
I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was on my way to the Fisk Memorial Chapel one late Saturday afternoon to prepare for the next day’s worship service. It was fall of my junior year — and the university was broke, and unfortunately stuck with me as a makeshift student chaplain. If…
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“From the Hearts of Us…”
Excerpts from Jan Richardson’s “Blessing in a Time of Violence” (The Cure for Sorrows: A Book of Blessings) Which is to say this blessing is always. Which is to say there is no place this blessing does not long to cry out in lament, to weep its words in sorrow, to scream its lines in…
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Dissenting from the Culture of Death
“Whatever revolution we might hope for in our society has a better chance for grounding if it takes hold within us personally and individually.”
A Voice In Ramah
Another world is possible…
A Voice In Ramah 