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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Giving Back by Allison Weaver and Dr. Helen Bessent Byrd (M.Div.’07)

…is what matters most. “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was, ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question (Luke 10:25-37), ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What happens when we…

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Gems for The Journey: Memorializing African American Inventors by Rev. Veronica Thomas (M.Div.’07)

…not fair and has been partial toward humankind. Nowhere in the Bible can we find where God is interested in the color of our skin, but he is concerned about the content of the heart. In Acts10:34-35, Peter declares that God is no respecter of person. Paul says in Acts 17:26, “From one man he made all nations” we are…

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History: Whose Story? Black Lives Matter! by Rev. William R. Freeman (M.Div.01)

…the lynching/murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers’ Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, had it not been for those same Black-owned newspapers. It is highly probable that this country would not have integrated schools, colleges, universities, mass transportation, and businesses like Woolworth and Thalhimer’s without the Civil Rights Movement led by The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr….

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Just As Jesus Was

…Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer & the Christian Life (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1996) James Taneti is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Earlier, he had ministered in church, classroom, clinical, and correctional settings. After completing his theological education at the United Theological College, India, James pursued and received a master’s degree at…

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