Posted 9.27.19 - The gospel song had its roots in the camp meeting songs of the 18th and 19th centuries, the songs of the Sunday School movement, the Negro spirituals, the songs of the YMCA, and the songs of the various social movements of the...
Read MorePosted 9.16.19 - Native American - Chief Seattle: Teach your children what we have taught our children – that the earth is our mother.Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth.If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.This we...
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Posted 9.9.19 - Justice has been basic to the teachings of the Hebrew and Christian faiths. The prophets challenged the Israelites time and again to do justice. Amos even went so far as to speak out against the religious rituals and customs of the day,...
Read MorePosted 9.1.19 - The Southern Poverty Law Center identified in 2017 954 active hate groups in the United States. There is at least one such group in every state in the union and in some states there are 12 or more active groups. The...
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Posted 8.22.19 - The author of United Methodism’s most popular long-term Bible study has issued a plea to the church “to heal and not divide” over the issue of homosexuality.Bishop Richard Wilke, who wrote the four-part Disciple Bible Study series, offers his impassioned appeal in...
Read MorePosted 8.22.19 - “OUR VOTE MATTERS” FORUM & DEBATE AT SCARRITT BENNETT On Thursday, August 29th the “Our Vote Matters” Forum and Debate will be held in the Great Hall of the Laskey Building on the historic campus of the Scarritt Bennett Center, located at 1027...
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Posted 8.19.19 - When God restored our common life, our hope, our liberty, at first it seemed a passing dream, a waking fantasy. A shock of joy swept over us, for we had wept so long; the seeds we watered once with tears sprang up...
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Posted 8.12.19 - Over the past month many events have illustrated the continuing impact of our tiny, unique former college on the quality of life in Nashville and the world. Though Scarritt closed as a degree granting institution in the ‘80’s, its voice resounds powerfully...
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Posted 8.4.19 - It’s not often that an official statement from the Washington National Cathedral – the most famous icon of The Episcopal Church and site of many state funerals and inaugural prayer services – contains words like “savage,” “dangerous,” “violent” and “dehumanizing.”...
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Posted 7.22.19 - "The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him, but...
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