Lucy Durr Hackney
When Lucy Durr married Sheldon Hackney in 1957, the custom alterations to her beautiful gown were done for her by a family friend--Mrs. Rosa Parks. [...]
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A New Year for Children
As we begin the New Year, every new headline reminds us that these are very tumultuous times. I start this season redoubling my determination to focus all [...]
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Prayers for the Holy Season
All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony of some political leaders proposing [...]
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We Must Protect Our Children America!
Six years ago today, December 14 started off like an ordinary morning in classrooms across our country. Children rushed in to school bundled against the [...]
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Remembering My Dear Friend and Freedom Fighter Dr. John Maguire
“Up until I was 16 years old and a senior in high school, I did the same thing my friends did. We drove through the [...]
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A New Moral and Human Low
It has come to this: tear-gassing toddlers. Heartbreaking images of the American government’s attacks on asylum-seekers at the border have emerged over the past several [...]
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Shall We Say Grace?
When I was a child, my father kept an editorial cartoon pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep impression on [...]
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Lessons in Servant Leadership
“The way through chaos, calamity, and confusion is not by adding chaos, calamity, and confusion. That multiplies what’s hurting us and undermining us. The Hebrew [...]
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Succeeding Against the Odds
After two years of divisive, hateful rhetoric from the highest levels of government, the profoundly inhumane treatment of immigrant families, and the placing of corporate [...]
Read MoreVote for Children Who Cannot Vote for Themselves
“That candidates were answering to us was really powerful. I was really glad I got to be a part of it. Even though I can’t [...]
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