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Goliath, David, and South Carolina

My friend Lance Ford posted to Facebook,

White Pastors: It’s Thursday. Are you willing to set your long ago planned sermon series on the shelf and consider what the Lord would have you say to your church in light of the yet-another unspeakable crime against our black siblings?Continue reading

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The Yellow Shirts, The Baptists, Showed Up

Love shows up. Even when sometimes we do not communicate with our words as well as we like, our actions, as they say, “speak louder than words.” Yes, it is a double-edged sword.… Continue reading

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Is There Nothing of Value In Monica Lewinsky’s Forbes Speech?

My Facebook Feed reveals little sympathy for Monica Lewinsky. As she predicted in her speech, her words seem most to have ignited once dead embers into rants and retorts. So, is there really nothing of value in what Ms. Lewinsky said in her speech but more kindling to keep … Continue reading

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Fury at the Crossroads or, War Makes Us Machines

Did David Ayer consider that his script and movie would offer an underlying critique of the current war on Terror? Sure, it is not the first thing about which you think when Fury presents viewers with a variety of crossroads. But, Wardaddy, Brad Pitt, offers one way this … Continue reading

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