Not every black congregations issue is that we dont want it to be. Were shamed. What we have done is we have taken a real life situation that is jermainegermane to every congregation in american and turned it into an issue. And folks dont deal with issues. They deal with people. One of the things were trying to surface is how many of us as human beings are impacted by this system . Whether it is as victims and, by the way, the new language is not victim, it is survivors. Because if youre a survivor that means you made it through something. And so were talking now about survivors. Whether youre a survivor of a situation, or whether you are someone who has a son or a daughter who is actually in the system, because one of the things we dont talk about much is that 80 of all young black males who are incarcerated are also crime survivors. They dont think of themselves that way but the very institute who has done research and we have discovered that when you interview young men who have bee
Children. We dont see them as our grand tchirn. But i guarantee you if you were to do an altar call as i will this sunday and ask for every parent and ever grandparent who has a child thats been impacted by the system, whether its by a wrongful incarceration, wrongful arrest or whether an incarceration or an arrest, i guarantee you that between one third and one half of the congregation will come forward. This is our issue. I used to try to disance mibe up until i was incarcerated. I dont have one of those rags to riches things. No. I met jesus before i went. Unlike those of you who have not sinned since you became religious. And i zranchinge the shame cool aid. I didnt know to know that i was in trouble. So i gave them a phony nick name, they call me doc. That was the only inmate attorneys that had a mono grammed jumpsuit. That took a while. And so it was ok for two weeks until a young man came up to me and he said, pastor. I said i dont know you. He said i used to play drums in your
In this case this is money that these families are earning and i am looking forward to a vibrant debate. I am glad the conservative movement has space for this kind of vibrant debate. I am a huge supporter of what everything reagan did. I also think we need to recognize the 21st century has some difficult in some significant differences in the era in which he governed. Globalization israel real and we need to stay globally repetitive and recognize in the 21st century, families face challenges that were not there in the 20th. It would be difficult to do that in the 21st century because of what those jobs paid. Eventually my father would have had to become an electrician or welder. My mother would have to become a dental hygienist or paralegal in order to live comfortable lifestyles. A great time. The last time the Miami Dolphins were in the super bowl was in the 1980s. One of the things conservatives have been about is common sense and reform and this is a commonsense reform about the r
Last week we held the 186th Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention in Somerset, Ky. First Baptist Somerset was a great and gracious host church. Its pastor, Ryan Coffey,
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sara Robinson, who has served in ministry roles at First Baptist Church in Somerset since 2008, has been named women s ministry and transition consultant for the Kentucky