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Verse — Chicago’s Southside, 1965
The First Presbyterian Church and the Blackstone Rangers All stores and resturants must serve all after the Civil Rights law passed in 1964. But real change comes, that has a chance to last, as power...
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Verse – The Laundromat – Pittsboro, N.C., 1969
She was young, white, and pregnant when they moved south. She had worked for Civil Rights for blacks up north. So seeing two doors as she faced the laundromat obscured the sordid facts of legal...
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My Soul Waits in Silence
A contemplative reflection on Psalm 62 at Saint Augustine Beach, Saint Augustine, FL. For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. I wait in silence. [Psalm 62:5 NRSV] I wait in...
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God, Guns and Gravy
J.H. is an astute student of partisan politics. He wrote this response to yesterday’s post on the Confederate flag flying in northern Florida: Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, could not be nominated for...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves
A month in America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida, makes clear that history is a strange thing. History is the past, but it’s also the telling of it, the renderings of it. The English language...
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American Sniper, Selma, and Jesus
Sometimes, as the saying goes, a preacher goes from preaching to “meddling”. The sermon disturbs the listeners. Chaplain Randy Beckum preached a sermon like that in the Chapel of MidAmerica Nazarene...
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The Church on the Bridge
Pettus Bridge, Selma to Montgomery If some churches are like opium dens, others are like Pettus Bridge, the bridge over the Alabama River you must cross to get from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In the...
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Barack Obama after the Presidency?
Ever wondered what President Barack Obama will do after he leaves office? The President’s 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” speech in Selma, Alabama is a masterpiece in the tradition of the Church...
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Religious Freedom in Indiana – the new face of discrimination
The Governor of Indiana just signed into law the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (SB 101) that brings to mind the pre-civil rights movement segregated lunch counters. In the era of expanding civil...
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The Movement Made the Man (MLK)
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not make the civil rights movement. As Elizabeth Myer Boulton reminds us, it was the movement that made the man. Without the movement there would have been no “I Have a...
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President Obama’s Letter to the NYT
President Obama’s Letter to the Editor of The New York Times today responds to a thoughtful NYT article by Jim Rutenberg on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click HERE for a link to the NYT’s coverage of...
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Go Set a Watchman: A Review
A Review: Go Set a Watchman by Emily Hedges*, September 3, 2015 Fans of To Kill a Mockingbird have already heard—Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (Harper Collins July 2015) doesn’t reflect well on...
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Old Joe Hill and Old Doug Hall
Joe Hill (1879-1915) I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you or me Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead,” “I never died,” says he. “I never died,” says he. I dreamed I saw Doug Hall last...
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Sierra Club: “#BlackLivesMatter!”
Sierra Club, the nation’s highly respected environmental conservation and preservation non-profit, weighed in on the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week with this statement...
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“Legitimacy” on Martin Luther King Day – 2017
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr days before the 2017 inauguration of a new president begs for serious national reflection. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights leader some people once...
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Desmond Tutu on Goodness
Filed under: Civil Rights Movement, Life, Love, Spirituality, Uncategorized Tagged: Bishop Tutu, goodness
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Frame Up! Remembering Martin Sostre
Yesterday Views from the Edge published several posts re: the case of Martin Gonzalez Sostre. Today we post this documentary film that jars the memory and human sensibilities. Martin Sostre speaks on...
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The DOJ on BLACK Privilege
Attorney General Jeff Sssions Apparently the Trump Administration Justice Department led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions hopes to balance the scales of racial injustice in America where it believes...
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An Absence of Humility
Hold to the Good 153 Evangelical leaders convened recently in Nashville under the auspices of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood and issued a statement on sexuality. Signers...
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Martin Luther King Day 2018 – Making America Great Again
Today Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream seems further from reality than it was a year ago. Events of 2018 have turned America into an international horror show, a source of ridicule among our closest...
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