Civil Rights Icon and Congressman John Lewis Announces Cancer Diagnosis
January 2, 2020
Lewis announced on the last week of 2019 that he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer.
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2020 Vision: Fear Not!
January 2, 2020
When I was about three or four-years-old, we lived on Goddard Road, on the north end of Detroit. We had two apple trees and a grapevine in the backyard, and another apple tree in the front. My father had once told me never to eat the apples that had fallen to the ground because there may be a worm in them. To show me, he picked one up from the ground, so I could actually see a worm hole in it. One morning, I bolted out the front door, down the gangway to the backyard and I saw this bright
Words of the Week – Love In Spite of Failure
May 22, 2019
Scripture: John 21:15-22 Two weeks ago, there was a story in the news that garnered a lot of attention. Rodeo Road was renamed Barack Obama Boulevard. Certainly, President Obama deserves every honor that we, as Americans, can give him, for he pressed past the winds of bigotry and ugly resistance and distinguished himself as a great leader and a role model. We know all about President Obama’s successes, yet we scarcely know about his failures. In 1999, Mr. Obama failed in his quest to become elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. I use President Obama as an example because