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Why George Washington University Should Celebrate Its Namesake
(Copyright 2022) by Eddie Hyatt (Grapevine, Texas) The Washington Post recently raised eyebrows after publishing an op-ed that called for renaming George Washington University in order to address systemic racism and inequality. Such rhetoric, however, reveals a very limited understanding of history and is at odds with the nation’s most highly regarded abolitionists and Civil Rights leaders. For example, no one was more scathing in their verbal attacks on slavery and racial inequality than the former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Yet, after much study and investigation, Douglass acquired a very high regard for Washington and America’s founders. In a July […]
Celebrate!
(Copyright 2017) by Brenda Branson (Hanson, Kentucky) It is no wonder that I love you, O God.You have granted me a security that I could never find among the things of this world.You have erased from my life the fear of death.What follows the grave is not my fearful concern.The traumatic experiences of this life cannot destroy me.You are never out of reach but are ever aware of my problems and conflicts.How great and all-powerful is my God!This is the God who is concerned about me.He reaches into my distraught life to heal my wounds.He encompasses me with eternal love.He […]
Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
(Copyright) by Sandeep Poonen (Bangalore, India) One of my children recently came home reciting this rhyme learned while at school. “Witches, ghosts, and goblins, walking down the street Knock on every doorway, ‘Trick or treat!’” I was shocked by how my child, in all innocence, could sing so casually and trivially about such scary things. I also noticed that this song grouped ghosts and goblins which are not real, with witches. I realized that this song sought to group witches into that same silly, not-real category. Some people think of witches as women with pointed-hats and a broom, or witch doctors in a jungle. But […]