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Remember others at "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
9:16 AM on 12/25/2009
OPINION - One of the favorite songs of this holiday season is "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." But this may not be the most wonderful time for everyone...
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Finding spiritual uplift in an economic downturn
7:00 AM on 11/25/2009
OPINION - A connection with an authentic faith experience can help people survive and even defeat the most difficult circumstances.
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Keep your politicians out of my church
9:00 AM on 10/23/2009
OPINION - It is interesting that so many politicians absent themselves from churches throughout the year and then appear in church a few weeks before an election.
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Churches could fill the gap in black education
6:00 AM on 10/16/2009
OPINION - Perhaps our churches can take a page out of the churches that used their facilities as schools for freed slaves.
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Leave the government out of religion
6:40 AM on 10/12/2009
OPINION - The first amendment should be the foundation for our growth as a religiously diverse nation. Just as we have been able to overcome much of our racial narrow-mindedness...
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Our kids are a bigger threat to themselves than KKK ever was
10:52 AM on 10/02/2009
OPINION - Chicago, once a haven for black culture and economic progress, has become more dangerous for black youth than Mississippi was for their forebears...
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Racism's roots in the Bible
8:11 AM on 09/23/2009
OPINION - Everyone in power had been raised in a religious environment that taught that blacks were the descendants of Ham who was cursed by his father.
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Churches give people more than just faith
10:00 AM on 09/18/2009
There are still many people who believe that churches should do more than help people prepare for life after death.
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National Baptist Convention, heavy on preaching but light on issues
8:57 AM on 09/10/2009
OPINION - It is almost unbelievable that a meeting of black people that large could go unnoticed by the general public. Especially a meeting of black church leaders whose members...
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Youth finding God outside of church
8:00 AM on 09/02/2009
OPINION -- It is very difficult listening to someone who is still a teenager talk about how dangerous they used to be and how much they have changed. It makes you wonder...
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What would Jesus say about health care reform?
9:00 AM on 08/27/2009
OPINION - A member of Congress requested use of our church to have a town hall meeting on health care reform. Given the boisterous nature of some of these...
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"The" black church does not exist
8:02 AM on 08/19/2009
OPINION -- The genius of the black experience is that our forebears were able to use the very tool that was the primary means of oppression...
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