Today I had the privilege of hearing Gayle Danley’s poetry in Walters Art Museum listening to the poets in the African American Family Festival. Ms. Gayle gave several moving poems, including one about her daughter’s attempted suicide. I was listening to Ms. Gayle and thought to myself “This is poetry.” When you think of poetry, you…
Month: February 2014
In Christ, We are God’s Righteousness #NPBCSetApart
I was reviewing some memory verses and after a brief review of 2 Corinthians 5:17 in context, I came to the following passage at the end: We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had…
Orwell’s view of War
War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four The…