I received two emails this past week that first simply annoyed me and then angered and saddened me. The first email was a rant about how Muslims are able to shut down Madison Avenue in New York City every Friday, but Christians and Jews cannot pray publicly. The second email asked the reader to scroll […]
My wife and I saw the movie The Help yesterday. It is a fantastic film. Great acting. Great story about an unbelievable period in our history. This film shows us how racism quietly invades hearts and homes and a nation.The segregation laws and attitudes and acts of injustice are not ancient history. These attitudes remain […]
For your contemplation– From Sydney Harris: “All organizations pretend that they are deeply interested in ‘innovation,’ but what they really want are new things that can be handled the same old ways by the same old people with the same old attitudes” (in Gerlach and Hines, People, Power, Change: Movements of Social Transformation, p. 207) […]