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MLK Day and My Hopes for Haiti
Here are links to other MLK Days when I have posted.
Today, rather than reflect too much on MLK, or the dreams that remain to be completed for civil rights in America, I’d much rather just share a couple of hopes that I have for the people and situation in Haiti. Honestly, its too tragic not [...]
U2 Atlanta Set List!
Here is the set list from last night!
Breathe, Get On Your Boots, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – Stand By Me, Stuck In A Moment, No Line On The Horizon, Magnificent, Elevation, Until the End of the World, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I’ll Go [...]
Inauguration Day 2009: Not the end of ‘The Dream’ but part of it!
There has been much talk as of late as to whether or not the election and swearing in Barack Obama is the fulfillment of the dream of Dr. King. Apparently, for many within America, and specifically a large percentage of those in the African American community, this is the dream.
While you will find no greater [...]
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Millions of people around the world are taking today to remember the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. King. To be for certain, as tomorrow’s inauguration will say, King’s life set the stage for something special to happen in American history that had not been imagined before. We remember, and are better for it.
On last [...]
Atlanta, Emergent, and Historic Civil Rights Moments
Last night I visited my first Atlanta emergent cohort meeting. It was a pretty good time and we had a pretty lively discussion on Joe Myers book ‘Organic Community’. As one who has spent more time with Myers’ other book, ‘The Search to Belong‘, I found this conversation as somewhat of an evolution on may [...]
That we might all remember
Today is an important day in history. Maybe its just an American history, but I dare to think it not. Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have blogged a few times before about Dr. King and his pursuit of the dream for equality for Blacks in the [...]
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: An Icon Remembered
Here is a brief liturgy from a service on ‘MLK Sunday’ at an Episcopal Church in California. Also, posted below, the very famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. If you have not seen it in its entirety, I strongly recommend it and for this reason have again posted it below.
SALUTATION
Minister: We hold these truths [...]
Team life and Leadership
The last few days I have been away with our team at YFC Geneva on a year-end retreat. It was good, healthy, painful, exciting, and reflective. We were in Ovronnaz. Small, but good.
Everyone in leadership knows the experience of group reflection.
Everyone in leadership understands the critique of work that is different from the evaluation [...]
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