How can we best show suffering or disenfranchised people that we really see them? In the simple act of looking someone in the eyes and telling them, “I see you.” you are doing a redemptive and reconciling act. If that is a person who is suffering, then you call them back into an encounter with […]
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I agree, all lives matter to God, that is not the problem. The problem is that we are in a broken upside-down world, a sinful, sinister, divided, dysfunctional world where all lives do not value the same. As long as we are in prison to race, we will not find the solution to this. Some […]
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I believe that the more I know who I am I will better know what I am supposed to do in this world. What I am to do comes out of the overflow of who I am to be and who I am to be has so much to do with what is inside of […]
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The MLK Celebration unites people throughout the Sacramento area and invites them to celebrate—and be challenged by— Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of racial diversity, reconciliation,and harmony. It has grown annually, with over 2,000 people from more than 100 churches attending. For more information go to www.mlksacramento.org
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This week, we will be gathering for Leading in These Times. Our theme this year, “A City That Looks Like Heaven,” is meant to address the subject of unity, diversity and ending racism – themes that God has put on the hearts and minds of many faith leaders in our region. With such weighty subject […]
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In late summer of 2013, Pastor Francis Anfuso of the Rock of Roseville called me into a meeting to talk about something. Francis was in the midst of building toward the first meeting to identify, build up and unleash the “revival graces” within the wider church in the Sacramento region through an effort called Leading […]
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