Mary Turner’s story died when she died. Mary Turner’s protest died when she died. Mary Turner’s pre-born baby died when she died. Mary Turner’s name died when she died. You don’t recognize her name. You don’t recognize her story. And if you were there on May 19th, 1918, you wouldn’t recognize her body either. Mary…
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Over the last four months my alarm was set at 4:00 am—3 hours after my bedtime at 1:00 am. But between the 21 hours of little rest every day: I had the time of my life. I was an intern at the Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform over the summer. The Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical…
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I never imagined that when I finally saw her again, I wouldn’t recognize her. All those years without hearing from her, I thought she had forgotten about me. I never considered that in some ways, I had forgotten her. I didn’t know what she looked like anymore. I didn’t think I wouldn’t recognize her. And…
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There are two kinds of White supremacists. Some White supremacists cover themselves with white garbs. Other White supremacists cover themselves with White guilt. There has always been different kinds of White supremacists. White supremacists have never been a homogeneous group. They have always differed in motives. They have always differed in severity. They have always…
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When I was a teenager, a friend asked me, “Sam, what would you say to a girl considering an abortion?” I was honest with her. I told her I don’t know. I was eighteen at the time. I wasn’t a Christian. I wasn’t a critical thinker. And I didn’t care to think about abortion. I thought…
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What Jesus said about White privilege isn’t what you hear from professors, politicians, and many pastors today. Jesus doesn’t command White people to check their privilege, he commands them to count their blessings. And that’s the problem, isn’t it? We’ve buried our heads so deeply in the sand to bow to the golden calf of…
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You probably don’t know its name, but you’re familiar with it. Barack Obama’s pastor preached about it. Chance The Rapper raps about it. Cornel West writes about it. And evangelicals are becoming sympathetic about it. You are familiar with Black Liberation Theology, and you didn’t know it. Black Liberation Theology was developed by James Cone…
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If I change my positions on racial equality because evangelical leaders disagree with me, I would have been pro-slavery in the eighteenth century because of George Whitefield and a segregationist in the twentieth century because of Carl. F. H. Henry. Evangelical leaders do not hold a monopoly on truth. The Bible is innerant: they are…
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I thought I heard mom call out my name. I stopped to listen intently. But I didn’t hear anything except her hasty footsteps. So I turned on the music again, grabbed my tools, and continued to fix the faucet in the laundry room. Not long afterward, within seconds actually, I heard “Sammy” again. Mom’s voice…
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What if Africa wasn’t colonized by Europeans? What if Europeans didn’t have access to exploit Africa’s resources and people? Would Africa be prosperous, peaceful, powerful like Wakanda? What-if questions have always been an integral part of comic book lore. In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the archetype for superheroes when they asked, “what…
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