Many years ago I visited the office of a prominent umbrella church group and saw on one of the walls that now-famous quotation from Mahatma Gandhi “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the world …
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Memorial Day 2020: The War Yet To Be Won
By Rev’d Dr. Michael Friday
In her excellent and justifiably best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness, (The New Press, NY 2012) Michelle Alexander argues and substantiates that “racism is highly adaptable” (p.21ff). Establishing …
Murder, Most Foul!
The murder of George Floyd by that neck-kneeling policeman is no mystery though the tragic saga contains some puzzles. I am not a lawyer or a member of any security body and so know precious little about legal reasoning or security …
Sexual Prescience in Paul?
“When individuals have sexual relationships, they have involved more than a pleasant physical sensation and emotional response. Because of oxytocin in the woman’s brain and vasopressin in the man’s brain, connectedness and bonding do occur.”
(Hooked: New Science on …
Non-Literal Language in the Bible
Though reluctant to enter the current impasse between my friend Dr. Michael Abrahams and some of my fellow Christians, intellectual honesty will not allow me to sit on the fence or the sidewalk.
I know some Christians do but suspect …
Parenting Pointers
It’s famiIy month and I appreciate the circumstances of life that cut against doing our best in taking care of our children but allowing the idea of ‘what’s best for our child(ren)’ to exercise our minds is necessary despite the …