Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the Divine Dozen Saints – With Videos!

It’s Sunday of the MLK Holiday weekend and I am finally getting back to posting here. I do enjoy posting … More

Pandemic Day #287 – O Christmas Day!

I write after midnight on what is now the day after Christmas. It’s late, so I will keep this short. … More

So in this crazy Y2020, two hundred fifty-five days ago we celebrated an Easter unlike any other in my fifty … More

Presence Podcast: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing: Advent Reflections – Third Sunday of Advent https://anchor.fm/presence/episodes/Third-Sunday-of-Advent-Sitting–Waiting–Wishing–Advent-Reflections-ennrf4 ++++++++++ Readings for the Third Sunday of … More

First Monday of Advent – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing: Daily Advent Reflections https://anchor.fm/presence/episodes/First-Monday-of-Advent—Sitting–Waiting–Wishing-Daily-Advent-Reflections-en4v51 +++++++++++ Liturgical Readings for the First Monday of … More

First Sunday of Advent – Presence Podcast – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing https://anchor.fm/presence/episodes/Sitting–Waiting–Wishing-First-Sunday-of-Advent-en3nj6 ++++++++++ Liturgical Scripture for the First Sunday of … More

I premiere the first episode of my new, seasonal sub-podcast which I’ve entitled “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing: Advent Reflections” https://anchor.fm/presence/episodes/Sitting–Waiting–Wishing-Advent-Reflections—Christ-the-King-en2lcp Sitting, … More

1874 – Mob of 400 masked men on horseback armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 black men from jail in Gibson … More

August 25th – Montgomery, Alabama, home of Robert Graetz, white minister of Trinity Lutheran Church and Montgomery Association board member, … More

1989 – White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders black teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl. August 23rd … More

Happy Friday! It’s my last weekday before I return to teaching on Monday with a week of in-service to prepare … More

As I mentioned yesterday, my schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work … More

My schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work as many hours with … More

My goodness, it’s been a few days since I’ve posted this feature. As I mentioned previously, I’m enumerating for Census … More

1955 – Black WWII veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging … More

As I mentioned in Monday’s “My Paper.li” post, I’m changing how I do this week-daily feature. So here goes today’s… … More

As I mentioned in yesterday’s “My Paper.li” post, I’m changing how I do this week-daily feature. So here goes today’s… … More

1988 – More than 45 years after internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to the … More

Back again with this feature after a Thursday that was too busy to post “My Paper.li” link and stories yesterday. … More

1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16 year-old James Cameron survives the attack and … More