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Book Review: Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes
Last year, I had a conversation about forgiveness with a friend who grew up in Jim Crow Nashville. He opined that black people forgive white people too much and too soon. (I rather doubt he’s forgiven racist whites or their repressive Jim Crow…
Petition Biden to reunite immigrant family
Sign + Share - #ReuniteUS!
Issa Sao turned 40 last week. It was a sad day, with his wife and kids back in Ohio. Issa was deported to Mauritania in 2018, and then fled to Senegal to find safety again. But with the incoming Biden-Harris…
Beware the "Anti-riot" bill in Ohio Legislature
A terrible anti-protest bill was introduced in Ohio. Text is here: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-documents?id=GA133-HB-784
Among other things, HB 784:
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Dear red rural Ohio, please don’t send us city folk to slaughter
When it comes to our rural-urban divide in Ohio, and anywhere USA for that matter, our nearest county to our northeast – Licking County, with its largest town being Newark – might as well be Mars. And after Biden defeated Trump, will the divide…