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Simply Not Good Enough

  Under slavery, there were laws against teaching people of color to read and write. Some urban schools are the 21st-century version, cutting students off from future success.   This is unacceptable. We Christians should raise our voices: prayerfully, asking … Continue reading

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Cry Out in Unity

In many American cities, homicide is the #1 cause of death for young black men. If we care about unborn black babies, we must also care about at-risk young adults. Lamentations 2:19 (NIV) Arise, cry out in the night, as … Continue reading

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Pure Ends and Means?

    “The  means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”Martin Luther King, Jr.     Think it through. What might Dr. King think of the means and ends of the African-American abortion rate?

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Today’s Tears

  Martin Luther King Day on the heels of Sanctity of Life Sunday . . . it brings to mind the abortion of black babies.    African-Americans account for almost 30% of abortions Black women are 5 times more likely … Continue reading

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Safe Shelter for DNA

Today is Sanctity of Life Sunday. There’s no better day to ponder the science of life. As more people test their DNA to discover the details of their backgrounds, we clearly understand that every cell in our bodies carries our … Continue reading

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Simply Good

Proverbs 31:12 (NIV) says it well: . . . good, not harm, all the days. All good.

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Less Vice

Philippians 2:15 (CEV) You live among people who are crooked and evil. Or as the Amplified Bible puts it: a [morally] crooked and [spiritually] perverted generation.   Clearly, less vice, crookedness and perversion is better–in me, and in our culture. … Continue reading

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More Virtue

  You may be familiar with the “virtuous” woman or wife “of noble character”  in Proverbs 31:10. The Hebrew word, “hayil,” is often translated virtuous, noble, capable, valiant, excellent, strong, good, worthy. According to Vocabulary.com, virtuous is “‘good‘ with a … Continue reading

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A Force for More Virtue, Less Vice

William Wilberforce, the man who pushed Great Britain to end its slave trade, longed for a society that worked . . .   “for the encouragement of piety and virtue; and for the preventing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.”   … Continue reading

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Vice or Virtue?

    What do you think of politicians?   • All bad! • Some good, some bad • Time will tell No matter which side of the political divide we’re on, we’d like more virtue, less vice: Proverbs 29:4 (CEV) … Continue reading

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