Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
-Proverbs 31:8-9
The Rocks Will Cry Out,
Jim Butler
The Spirit of Rosa Parks Aretha Franklin’s 1967 song Respect captured both the rights of women and civil rights. Last week my wife and I visited both Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. We saw where the local Birmingham Fire Department turned fire hoses, and the local police released their German Shepherds and batons on black children….
Inspired by True Events Deported to Havana After a Life in the U.S. Abuelo arrived in Miami, Florida as a 10 year-old political refugee from Havana, Cuba, fleeing with his family the terror of Castro. From age 10 to 20, Abuelo picked citrus 10 hours a day, loading crates that weighed more than he. Unable to…
Standing for the truth makes us roar! Have you ever been placed in a position where telling the truth cost you? As I pastored my second church in a farming community in rural Arizona in the early 1990’s, a new epidemic swept the land — AIDS, and the fear associated with it. We thought we…
Future Texas remembers truth! Unity Alliance honors democracy at Dallas stadium. Explore descendants’ legacy. What is your legacy?
In the early 1980’s church life around Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, offered a selection of great churches. Dr. Joel Gregory preached at Gambrell Street Baptist, where professors fawned over his oratorical powers that mouthed “cherubim and seraphim” like he was sampling delicacies at Trader Joe’s. The flagship Travis Avenue Baptist Church, surrounded…
“Say it!! America is DOGEland!” And if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you’re going to fallTell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillarHas given you the callCall AliceWhen she was just small -“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. “Meet ‘Hannibal!,’ Your New Gatekeeper“ Girl, you really got me goin’You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’Yeah,…
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