Earlier this week, I read this excellent blog post on Colorlines: Could I Be Both Trayvon Martin AND George Zimmerman? Although parts of me did not want to admit it, this author's underlining premise, that I could be both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman was true! The fact that Zimmerman, in addition to having anglo …
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On the way home tonight, I tuned into MPR's Marketplace report. As I listened I heard a wonderful story about Brazil's success in feeding its population. In 2003, the leftist union leader Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva was elected president and made food a basic human right for his people. Zero Hunger was a program …
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"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." Although I am sure that we are all familiar with this quote and the principles that it teaches, it necessitates repeating. All too often we find ourselves standing for things that are not godly and not even good things, probably because someone told us …
<a href="I finished reading Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie around 12am this morning. And I loved every piece of reading it. I was immediately lost in the plot and fell in love with this Kambali character - a 15 year old girl who is so much more than people often take her for. There …
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Anyone who knows me really well also knows that I am an avid Garfield fan. I can't remember when my love for this overweight, sarcastic cat began, especially considering that I loathe cats, but I do know that my love has been existent for quite a while now. My collection of 33 Garfield comic books …
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I read this piece today that I found particularly encouraging, so I decided to just re-post a portion of it: Theologian Mary C. Grey is one of many scholars who write about resistance (a principled rejection of what is profoundly wrong to point toward a better reality) as a spiritual discipline. In "The Outrageous Pursuit …
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