Mom used to hold my hand as we walked by open sewage and streets covered by feces to get to church every Sunday morning. I was three or four years old at the time and that is one of my earliest memories from my life in Ghana. I remember that mom and I walked from…
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Tim Challies says I am one of his favourite bloggers from this year. Tim has always been inexplicably kind and gracious to me. But when I learned that I made his list of top bloggers from this year, I was shocked. Tim follows hundreds of bloggers, so I’m surprised I am among his favourite bloggers….
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You know about the first Christmas. You know that Christmas fulfilled God’s promise from the Old Testament. You know that a virgin woman named Mary was betrothed to a young man named Joseph. You know that before they married, before they consummated their union, the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced that she would…
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If you and I disagree on social justice, you’re not my enemy. But if you do not agree that A.J, Howie, Kevin, Brian, and Nick make up the greatest boy band of all time, we cannot be friends. The Backstreet Boys are the best-selling boy band of all time. They’ve sold over 130 million albums…
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The Agenda Project released a repulsive ad in 2015, and it recently resurfaced online. The ad opens with a lullaby and features a baby girl staring into the camera. Then the words, “She deserves to be loved” flashes across a black screen. The video reverts back to the giggling baby for a few seconds, then…
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I am dating a White woman. That is disappointing to some. That was difficult for me. Annie’s first words to me were that she admired my transparency. And I don’t want that to change. I want to be transparent with her. I want to be transparent with you. Last year, I wrote an article about…
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William Wilberforce didn’t abolish racism in Britain. John Graves Simcoe didn’t abolish racism in Canada. Thomas Jefferson didn’t abolish racism in America. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation didn’t abolish racism. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights leaders didn’t abolish racism. Barack Obama’s election didn’t abolish racism. We have abolished slavery, not racism. We have…
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“When a mother is hungry, she prepares a meal for her children.” – A Ghanaian Proverb The morning after we checked into the shelter, I found mom in the kitchen making breakfast for me. Her face was still bruised, and I imagine that her heart was too. But mom didn’t show it. Her bruised face…
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What is the leading cause of death in Canada? The answer might surprise you. The biggest threat to life in Canada is responsible for 30% percent of deaths in the nation. The leading cause of death in Canada is preventable and yet so pervasive. 10 out of 10 people die. Death is inevitable. 270, 000…
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I don’t know if you sleep on a bed or in a casket. I don’t know if you have another life or if you lost it. Either way, I know I’m fatherless. Though you’re not dead to me, I’m dead to you. In your eyes I died before I was born, In my…
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