Category Archives: Articles

14 Aug
0

We Need Prudence

History is strewn with the casualties of experiments in pursuing the “perfect society.” Striving for justice is important, but seeking justice in the knowledge that absolute justice will not be achieved in this world tempers our drive in a way ...

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10 Aug
0

American Creed

The phrase “liberty and justice for all” is a phrase that illustrates what our country stands for. It represents idea of how all people in America are treated equally and how everyone idealistically has a fair chance to make their ...

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07 Aug
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Repairing the Damage

Despite massive government spending in our nation’s largest cities, black neighborhoods remain disproportionately troubled by crime, poverty, and family dysfunction. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that all of this is the effect of white turpitude: first slavery, then ...

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01 Aug
0

Black Lives Matter: The Proposition, The Organization, and The Movement

If one is not in alignment with that ideological understanding of black life in America and with the goals necessarily resulting from such understanding, it is reasonable to ask what the organization is doing with an otherwise fine proposition. After ...

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27 Jul
0

Activism or Activity: Up to Us

Activity heals; it renews the mind and the eyes so people can see a space of subjectivity and possibility, ever so small initially, but ever so true. The activity opens a path toward authentic human action and has a miraculous ...

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27 Jul
0

Keep it Personal

The superiority of personal relationships over impersonal systems extends far beyond commercial transactions. In fact, we should be pushing for “local” in government, education, philanthropy, entertainment, and just about everything else.

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17 Jul
0

The Hopeful Roots of a Movement

“For the sons of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than the sons of the light.” –Luke 16:8 The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a profound spiritual conviction that the men and women of that ...

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16 Jul
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Victimhood Does Not Define Her: An Entrepreneur in South Sudan

For a while, life was good. Joice married and her expanding business supported her growing family. Then the dream seemed to come crashing down. Her husband abandoned her. The civil war destroyed her business. Joice found herself homeless with seven ...

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12 Jul
0

The Most Important Divide is Not Race

Unless we can agree on the unexceptionable tenets of respect for other human beings and law and order, the common pursuit of other aims can never even start. We must all choose, right now, and stick to our choice no ...

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11 Jul
0

Extremism Is Engulfing Us

With Hobbes, Marx and Lenin affirmed the need for a strong collective leading entity pushing the march of socialism. The collectivized self needs guidance, a vanguard, to lead the masses—and use them for the task—toward the ultimate destruction of the ...

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