Prayers for a Teenager Who Has Been the Victim of Racism
We were once dead in our sins and strangers to your grace, but you have called us by name and made us brothers and sisters
Jesus meets our hurting students in their pain to show his long-suffering compassion and great love as they live in a world corrupted by sin.
We were once dead in our sins and strangers to your grace, but you have called us by name and made us brothers and sisters
if I’m being honest, I prefer to retreat to the suburbia of my own heart, to not face the pain in the world, the pain in the lives of others, or the pain of my own story.
Dr. King understood that none of us can claim to accurately see and address the evil around us until we first take action to find and deal with the evil within ourselves.
This week’s workshop on racial justice issues comes to us from Watson Jones III.
The first time I read the Hebrew Scriptures all the way through and encountered the prophets, I was unable to ignore a vision of sin as a corporate undertaking and repentance as highly communal and action-oriented.
Martin Luther King’s birthday is the perfect opportunity to bring your teenagers along to see the newly released film Just Mercy. The movie, based on attorney Bryan Stevenson’s memoir of the same name, is an account of Stevenson’s…