I'm back after a powerful week in Valence with Don and Ruth Cripe of Healing for the Nations.
Helping out in this retreat reinforced for me how important this kind of teaching is to living, sharing and even understanding the Gospel.
We saw God do some wonderful things with five people who had come desperately seeking answers in their lives. Please pray for them as you read this. Four women and a man.
I also was thrilled to see that Matt Glock, an I.T. friend and colleague working in Grenoble, France, has gotten something out of reading Parting the Waters, by Taylor Branch. Matt's the first person I know who has taken me up on my challenge and encouragement to read this book.
He has started commenting on it on his blog. Check it out.
I still think this book should be required reading for EVERY American. And especially Christians. Even those who lived through the Civil Rights period who think they understood it.
The book -- based largely on wiretaps and other unimpeachable sources -- challenges us to reconsider what we think about the good old days of America when everything was moral and good. It makes us taste the incredible sacrifice that had to be made by so many people in order to start the course of the changes we tend to think magically occured in our society.
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