Have you ever been reading those Bible verses about the rich and the first image that comes to mind is that million dollar home along the coast? Or when you read in Matthew 19 that it is “easier for a camel […]
Social Justice
To my evangelical brothers and sisters, when did we start demonizing the immigrants and refugees? When did we stop seeing them as people and deem their lament over separated families and violent homelands insignificant? When did our allegiance to our political […]
Like many others, I have been taking in the last few weeks with so many things I wanted to say but lacking the words. Though I still don’t have the words and probably never will, I know that staying silent about […]
“Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the […]
Thirty PLNU faculty, staff, and students spent their spring break on a weeklong Civil Rights Pilgrimage, journeying through Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Sitting in the pews of the church Martin Luther King preached in, marching across the famous Edmond Pettus […]
The typical faces of the Civil Rights Movement are men, Rosa Parks being the token female face, but the women of the Civil Rights were just as influential and crucial to the success of the movement. Though I am a […]
I saw Mr. President in Selma, Alabama. His arrival was announced by the motorcade that drove across the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the crowd of 25,000. The anticipatory silence erupted into cheers as Mr. President Obama, First Lady Obama, former […]
Two years ago, I went on a “pilgrimage” through South Africa to study racial segregation and reconciliation. Hearing that white individuals would give their non-white brothers and sisters a Bible and then in the name of God take their land […]
What does reconciliation mean to you? As someone striving to make reconciliation work my lifetime mission, this question has been asked of me quite a few times in the past couple weeks. And yet, each time the question has left […]
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