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America on Wednesday Wednesday is coming to America. Will we be gracious in defeat or victory? Will we be incapacitated if we lose? Will we be vindictive if we win? Will still be all Americans whatever the outcome? I am making known my views and preferences this season as a citizen and a voter, but…

Revelation 13:11-18 Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been…

I hear a lot about so-called angry voters this year and frankly I either have not met them or have been insensitive to them so that I did not notice their seething or the steam coming out of their nostrils. Angry? Anger is not a primary emotion. It comes from fear which is a darned…

  Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash Weeping for ourselves is honesty. Weeping for others is empathy. Sometimes we are embarrassed by our own weeping. We are uncomfortable with the weeping of others. It is so real, so vulnerable, so raw. "Jesus wept." John 11:36) No two words are as precious as these. The…

On October 31, 1837, approximately 311 Muscogee die in the steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Trail of Tears in the United States. All of these people were being forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern United States to the Indian Territory. The direct cause was boat collision at night on the Mississippi River…

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