Essays from ChurchPenknife Press, 2005 - 144 pages A social commentary on one of the world's most anti-social organizations, the Christian Church. |
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... Force , serving as lay minister in the base Gospel Service . On February 28 , 1993 , I brought a message for the last Sunday of Black History Month . I did not know it then , but that was to be the beginning of one of the greatest ...
... Force , serving as lay minister in the base Gospel Service . On February 28 , 1993 , I brought a message for the last Sunday of Black History Month . I did not know it then , but that was to be the beginning of one of the greatest ...
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Daniel D. Hardman. observances . The Air Force Chief of Chaplains was not concerned that a black congregation might have need of a black chaplain . Our outgoing chaplain , Major Reggie Cleveland , one of only 88 African American active ...
Daniel D. Hardman. observances . The Air Force Chief of Chaplains was not concerned that a black congregation might have need of a black chaplain . Our outgoing chaplain , Major Reggie Cleveland , one of only 88 African American active ...
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... Force chapel at that , was the ultimate slap in the face for a white - bread chaplain . It proved to be a slap in the face he would have to live with . The year I left Germany , my young chaplain was in charge of the Easter program that ...
... Force chapel at that , was the ultimate slap in the face for a white - bread chaplain . It proved to be a slap in the face he would have to live with . The year I left Germany , my young chaplain was in charge of the Easter program that ...
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... Force Base in Fort Worth , Texas , I met a young man named Benjamin Joseph Madden . This is one person I will never forget . He told me things that I initially thought were beyond crazy , yet I must admit I was fascinated and deeply ...
... Force Base in Fort Worth , Texas , I met a young man named Benjamin Joseph Madden . This is one person I will never forget . He told me things that I initially thought were beyond crazy , yet I must admit I was fascinated and deeply ...
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... force that made us . That it was intended to help us create a tremendous helping life here on earth , but not to be the essence of what , why , and how we live . For instance , it has amazed me for years how Christians don't understand ...
... force that made us . That it was intended to help us create a tremendous helping life here on earth , but not to be the essence of what , why , and how we live . For instance , it has amazed me for years how Christians don't understand ...
Contents
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We Have Work to | 29 |
The Cultural Horizon | 45 |
Attack on the Black | 56 |
Why I Do What I | 84 |
3 Strikes and Youre Out or In for Good | 92 |
Unity in the Community | 109 |
To Be AfricanAmerican or Just American | 119 |
Think for Yourself | 125 |
Bibliography | 132 |
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Page 56 - And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny ; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 52 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 41 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 29 - And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet ; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
Page 67 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 53 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 51 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication...
Page 52 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 105 - In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Page 87 - And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.