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Is your family normal?
On Sunday afternoon I discovered that our family is not normal. A few days earlier a college freshman contacted us on the recommendation of her professor, who knows our family, to ask whether she could stop by to ask us a few questions and take some photos. She told us that her journalism project focused…
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Weekend Reading
Miroslav Volf asks the provocative and important question, “Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?” The fact of the matter is this: fearful people bent on domination have created the contest for supremacy between Yahweh, the God of the Bible, and Allah, the God of the Quran. The two are one God, albeit differently…
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“Exhibit of American Negroes”
I was directed to these spectacular charts by a Facebook friend. The charts were created by sociology students at Atlanta University under the supervision of W. E. B. DuBois for the “American Negro” exhibit at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. I learned more about the charts on two design blogs, All My Eyes and Fast…
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So Maybe We Need Black History Month After All
A year later Edward Gilbreath has rethought the importance of Black History Month. So, why am I repenting and backtracking from my position of a year ago? Well, to put it bluntly, I get the feeling that certain folks have identified our nation’s “inconvenient” parts of history as key hurdles to advancing their own political and ideological agendas, so as…
David W. Swanson
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David W. Swanson 