One of my dearest and oldest friends grew up in a home where she was verbally abused and emotionally neglected by her father. Though her father never laid his hands on her, I don’t think she has even received a spanking in her life, the words that he used against her over the years affected …
Continue reading Addressing the Sins of the Past in the Present to Move Forward in the Future
This is the second part of the story that I posted earlier this week. Enjoy! The thought of being unemployed in the midst of a recession frightened Victor. Still, with his qualifications and experience, he assumed that he would easily find employment at another investment firm. However after months of searching, he discovered that he …
Continue reading Waiting for Salvation (It Wasn’t Supposed to Turn Out This Way)
The West has finally achieved the rights of man...but man's responsibility to God and to society has grown dimmer and dimmer - Aleksander Solzhenitysn In a country where the law of the land, and all of the rights that come with it, is of more value than the Word of God (even for believers), it is …
Yesterday, another senseless mass shooting took place at a school in CT. When I last checked the news 28 people were confirmed dead, 20 of them were children. One of the news stories reported that the gunman walked into his mother's classroom, who was a teacher at the school, shot and killed her and then …
Continue reading Another Post About Freedom Needed on a Day Like Today
Currently, I am reading "The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda." As the title suggests, it is a book that describes the atrocities that occurred in both Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990's, and the lengths that both countries took to get their nation on a path to peace and reconciliation. …
Continue reading Why We Must Confront Racism Instead of Ignoring It
A few months after my husband and I got married in 2009, we went to Milwaukee to visit my family over the Christmas season. As much as I wanted to get out and do a few things around the city, it snowed a lot that year. Coupled with my pregnancy and all types of sickness …
Ebony Johanna 