Category: Compassion
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Yes! Christians Can Be Angry Especially When Politicians Are Destroying Our Country.
The issue is not that Christians are allowed to be angry or even outraged at what Trump and his quislings are doing to America but how Christians choose to interpret and respond to such bold-faced bullying in the belligerent theft of our country. There are two basic things that we can control in the transactions…
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The Failure of Moral Courage, Volume Two
Historical Moments of Failing to Stand Up and Speak Out Here’s a list of historical moments where people, groups, or entire societies failed to stand up and speak out** against injustice, oppression, or atrocities. These failures to act often led to devastating consequences and illustrate the importance of taking a stand in the face of…
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“Two Codes of The Christian Spiritual Warrior.”
The greatest challenge in the Spiritual Warrior’s life journey is self-mastery, particularly in conflict situations with others. The discipline of self-mastery is one of the hardest lessons of all, requiring total submission to higher principles and a sacred order that does not make war on others or fight to demonstrate manhood, prowess, and power in…
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“America Needs to Finalize an Anti-Lynching Law Now!”
“Between 1882 and 1968 at least 4,742 predominantly African Americans were reported lynched in the United States of America and ninety-nine percent of all perpetrators of lynching escaped punishment by State or local officials.” America needs an Anti-Lynching Law which makes it a federal crime against persons who intentionally or wantonly engage in or are…
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A Living Hell.
As a person of deep religious convictions,”hell” is not a word that I take lightly nor is the word “evil.” We are living in evil times and the absence of true moral leadership from our President, the GOP and other persons have needlessly created a form of living hell for many Americans. Great leaders shepherd…
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The Problem Is Not Trump’s Alone!
Yes! The president has hurled insulting and demeaning words to immigrants, women, and people of color, political opponents and other people. Yes! The president should take responsibility for how his words may have caused some people to engage in hate-driven acts of violence of which El Paso and Dayton are the most recent and horrific…
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In The End America Loses If We Don’t Do What is Morally Right To Strengthen and Save Our Democracy.
The racial animus and personal attacks by President Donald J. Trump “parlayed” against various members of the Democratic Party along with the deafening silence and refusal of some Republican cohorts and base supporters to publicly denounce such strident incrimination, painfully demonstrate how low we have sunk as a nation into the politics of resentment…
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Quotable Quotes on Power III
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Angela Davis “God made freedom. Man made slavery.” Marie Joseph—Grenier “The government is best which governs best.” John M. Hutchins “Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.” Robert Sherwood “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III “Power, when invested in the hands of…
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Time for Silencing of the Lames: Nanci Pelosi Should Once Again Become Speaker of the House
The seventeen Democrats led by Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Bill Foster of Illinois along with numerous freshmen who have petitioned other Democrats against supporting Nanci Pelosi as Speaker of the House next January should stand down. Now is not the time for newly elected Democrats to quibble over who will lead them this next…