From Gary Haugen, founder of International Justice Mission: “When you survey very, very poor communities, residents will tell you that their greatest fear is violence.” “The problem is not that the poor don’t get laws, it’s that they don’t get law enforcement.” “In Bolivia, for example, if a man sexually assaults a poor child, statistically, […]
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Blessed Be The Peacemakers
From Ian Morgan Cron, CHASING FRANCIS: I’ve confused being a peace lover with being a peace maker. A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. Is being an […]
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From Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) : I’ve been a Coach K fan for a long time. My admiration has little to do with basketball success. I was elated when my cousin’s son, Tyus Jones, chose to play for Coach K. We celebrated Monday night as Duke claimed the NCAA National Championship. […]
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You likely know the story–here’s the Cliff-notes version. Livi Petit and his OU fraternity brothers caught on tape in a hateful, disgusting, racist chant. Levi’s expelled, frat’s shut down, social media blows up in a frenzy of well-deserved denunciation. Then Levi steps up an apoligizes, owns his behavior, meets with the OU football team, reaches […]
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From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From The Birmingham Jail: An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority group that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and […]
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From Tim Suttle’s book titled Shrink: Great is not necessarily good. The enduring power of greatness is its ability to entice human beings to trade the good for the great. Your conscience for a fortune. Your honesty for a kingdom. Your friendship for a championship. Your integrity for a big church. Your soul for a chance […]
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U.S. Congressman John Lewis was beaten nearly to death by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 9, 1965. Last weekend he returned to that bridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” Lewis has said that his parents told him as a young child in the segregated South his parents told him not […]
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From my friend Dick Foth: A man parked his shiny new sports car in a rather sketchy urban neighborhood. As he got out and locked the car he saw a young man staring longingly. “Hey, Mister,” said the kid. “Where’d you get that great set of wheels?” “My brother gave it to me.” “Get outta […]
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From John Sowers: “When the story of earth is told, all that will be remembered is the truth we exchanged. The vulnerable moments. The terrifying risk of love and the care we took to cultivate it.” ~ Don Miller Love requires us to take that terrifying risk. To take that first dangerous step into the […]
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Most people today, in short, assume that the word God refers to a dull, distant, and perhaps dangerous being. Most of those who think like that try hard, not surprisingly, to believe that this being doesn’t exist. “I don’t believe in God,” said the novelist Kingsley Amis, “and I hate him.” They are right. That […]
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“The Bible begins with the creation of a world and a garden, with the fashioning of humanity and two trees. One tree in the garden is strangely named the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Not “the tree of sin,” not “the tree of self-destruction”—the Bible writer gives us a lengthier, more descriptive […]
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“Justice is what love looks like in public. “Justice that is only justice soon degenerates into something less than justice. Justice must be rescued by something deeper…and yes, that something is love.” Dr. Cornell West I highly recommend listening to Dr. West’s thought-provoking keynote address at The Trinity Institute’s CREATING COMMON GOOD conference. Please leave a […]
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