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  • A Good Word
    • With Liberty, Justice and Care for All
  • Be Amused
    • $1.9 Trillion Relief in Miles
    • Aging Church
    • A Spoonful of Sugar …
    • Bargain Basements for Guns
    • Borderline Personalities
    • Channels in Hell
    • CT Scan
    • DOGE Cuts Ballooning Government
    • Empty Shelves
    • Exotic Masks
    • Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting
    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
    • Journey into Joy
    • Free Dental
    • Golden Dome
    • Heartbreak Hotel
    • High Standards
    • “Impervise!”
    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
    • Love Boat
    • Make America Comfy Again
    • Mask Etiquette
    • National Treasure
    • One Flew Over the Voter’s Nest
    • Old and Cranky Gift
    • Oxygen
    • Pastor Works Out
    • Political Pigs in the Parlor
    • Presidential Lucky Charm
    • Rapper in Chief
    • Release The Files
    • Relief
    • Sermon Preparation
    • Slow Dancing
    • Slow, Old iPhone Users
    • Solitary BINGO
    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
    • Tesla Brain Charger
    • The Bully
    • The Caregiver
    • The Cat Problem
    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
    • The Firefighter
    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
    • The Malaise of PTO Days
    • The Royal Pain
    • Transitions
    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
    • Life Navigation
    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet's Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • I’m a Believer
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Student Loans
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The Ballad of the Billionaire Who Sacked Sgt Buck … and “Banjo”
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Encontré DNA Ministry
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs

Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The song “We Shall Overcome” became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It offered courage, comfort, and promised hope.

The Midnight Train to Freedom,

Pastor Jim

Author James ButlerPosted on February 19, 2025April 12, 2025Categories The Prophet's GrottoTags Black History Month, Digital Social Justice, Freedom Riders, Racial Discrimination

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  • Welcome to Christians Need to Know
  • Contact Me
  • About Pastor Jim
  • Home
  • A Good Word
    • With Liberty, Justice and Care for All
  • Be Amused
    • $1.9 Trillion Relief in Miles
    • Aging Church
    • A Spoonful of Sugar …
    • Bargain Basements for Guns
    • Borderline Personalities
    • Channels in Hell
    • CT Scan
    • DOGE Cuts Ballooning Government
    • Empty Shelves
    • Exotic Masks
    • Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting
    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
    • Journey into Joy
    • Free Dental
    • Golden Dome
    • Heartbreak Hotel
    • High Standards
    • “Impervise!”
    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
    • Love Boat
    • Make America Comfy Again
    • Mask Etiquette
    • National Treasure
    • One Flew Over the Voter’s Nest
    • Old and Cranky Gift
    • Oxygen
    • Pastor Works Out
    • Political Pigs in the Parlor
    • Presidential Lucky Charm
    • Rapper in Chief
    • Release The Files
    • Relief
    • Sermon Preparation
    • Slow Dancing
    • Slow, Old iPhone Users
    • Solitary BINGO
    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
    • Tesla Brain Charger
    • The Bully
    • The Caregiver
    • The Cat Problem
    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
    • The Firefighter
    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
    • The Malaise of PTO Days
    • The Royal Pain
    • Transitions
    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
    • Life Navigation
    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet’s Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • I’m a Believer
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Student Loans
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The Ballad of the Billionaire Who Sacked Sgt Buck … and “Banjo”
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Encontré DNA Ministry
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs
  • Welcome to Christians Need to Know
  • Contact Me
  • About Pastor Jim
  • Home
  • A Good Word
    • With Liberty, Justice and Care for All
  • Be Amused
    • $1.9 Trillion Relief in Miles
    • Aging Church
    • A Spoonful of Sugar …
    • Bargain Basements for Guns
    • Borderline Personalities
    • Channels in Hell
    • CT Scan
    • DOGE Cuts Ballooning Government
    • Empty Shelves
    • Exotic Masks
    • Fixed Stamp Here: Mail-In Voting
    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
    • Journey into Joy
    • Free Dental
    • Golden Dome
    • Heartbreak Hotel
    • High Standards
    • “Impervise!”
    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
    • Love Boat
    • Make America Comfy Again
    • Mask Etiquette
    • National Treasure
    • One Flew Over the Voter’s Nest
    • Old and Cranky Gift
    • Oxygen
    • Pastor Works Out
    • Political Pigs in the Parlor
    • Presidential Lucky Charm
    • Rapper in Chief
    • Release The Files
    • Relief
    • Sermon Preparation
    • Slow Dancing
    • Slow, Old iPhone Users
    • Solitary BINGO
    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
    • Tesla Brain Charger
    • The Bully
    • The Caregiver
    • The Cat Problem
    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
    • The Firefighter
    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
    • The Malaise of PTO Days
    • The Royal Pain
    • Transitions
    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
    • Life Navigation
    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet's Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • I’m a Believer
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Student Loans
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The Ballad of the Billionaire Who Sacked Sgt Buck … and “Banjo”
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Encontré DNA Ministry
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs
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