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Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A reflection on the life of Pope Francis

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  {Disclaimer: While I am a lifelong Baptist, and an ordained minister of that denomination, my wife of nearly 24 years, Nicole, is a practi...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

My one powerful conversation with Tony Campolo

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  Today many of my friends and collogues in ministry are sharing wonderful stories of their many interactions over the decades with American...
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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #15: Matthew 21:31

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  Matthew 21:31     New International Version “Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them,...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #5: Psalm 82:3

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  Psalm 82:3  New International Version Defend the weak and the fatherless;     uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. This verse i...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Is God 'woke'? The answer should matter to you.

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Language changes constantly.  Every language does this, words are coined, borrowed, transformed, to fit the need of the moment.  Old words t...
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Thursday, August 19, 2021

I am a Minister of the Gospel: called, ordained, and entrusted to shepherd the sheep

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I may not look the part yet, but perhaps someday In recent conversations, primarily online, a number of people have 'warned' me agai...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

My thirty year journey away from Rush Limbaugh

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  As a public persona, Rush Limbaugh changed very little in the last thirty years, his philosophy regarding government, animosity toward pol...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Would Americans accept Martin Luther today, or dismiss him for his 'radical' economic views?

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It seems almost axiomatic that had Martin Luther King Jr. not been assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39, but instead lived and crusaded aga...
Friday, September 25, 2020

The Prophet Amos: What provokes God's wrath? - Injustice and False Worship

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Amos was an ordinary man, a farmer from Judah, chosen by God in the 8th century BC to go to Israel to warn the people of the impending wrath...