Forney Charities
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In our Custody, In our Care
“In our Custody, In our Care.” That’s the motto of the Minneapolis Police Department. This last week the jury that had convicted Derick Chauvin of murder assembled with the media for the first time since that fateful trial. Seven of the eight met for… Continue Reading “In our Custody, In our Care”
Some Fundamental Respect Needed Now
I remember driving from Ridgecrest out through the desert to our church in Randsburg, just off Highway 395. It was not an infrequent sight to see in the distance a group of buzzards circling over what I presumed to be their lunch, As I… Continue Reading “Some Fundamental Respect Needed Now”
A Single Garment of Destiny
In one of Martin Luther King’s most poignant writings, written from a city jail in 1963, Dr., King spoke of our common fate in America. We are one people tied up in a bond of interconnectedness. “Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of… Continue Reading “A Single Garment of Destiny”
A More Excellent Way
“Oops, I shouldn’t have said that.” How many times have the words gotten out of our mouths before we wish we could take them back? In the heat of argument, the insult, the half-truth, the jibe at another’s expense – those words come back… Continue Reading “A More Excellent Way”
Called to be a Movement
“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” So began a most bizarre adventure for a little girl and her dog in the aftermath of a fearsome tornado. An adventure that would charm both adults and children for generations. That might be fine for… Continue Reading “Called to be a Movement”
A Woman on a Mission
“You are not a horse. You are not at cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” This was the tweet from the FDA on why you should not use Ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. Desperation is raging through our nation, rampaging like Hurricane Ida, along… Continue Reading “A Woman on a Mission”
Truth, What is Truth?
Rudy Giuliani, Sunday morning was flustered and taken aback by Chuck Todd’s question as to whether his client, the former president Trump, would testify at his impeachment trial. Fulminating and sputtering, he finally blurted out, “Truth isn’t Truth.” Not any different sentiment from that… Continue Reading “Truth, What is Truth?”
Good Shepherds
In my role as chair of the religious studies department at Alaska Pacific University, I would sometimes be asked by our president Glenn Olds to look over the transcript of a prospective student who had been to what was frequently called a “Bible College.”… Continue Reading “Good Shepherds”
Plumb-Line Theology
This past week Donald Rumsfield passed. Not many of us in the peace action community will be shedding any tears. Andrew Bacevich, formal colonel of the Vietnam War who now realizes the folly of that endeavor, believes our military adventures into Afghanistan and Iraq… Continue Reading “Plumb-Line Theology”
We Are Family
In a moment, as time goes, our nation came under a new form of government and new management upon the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America. When Benjamin Franklin was returning from the last meeting of the Continental Congress after… Continue Reading “We Are Family”
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