Am I Not a Man and a Brother? by Chris Hopkins
It’s a classic theme in human history to treat others as less than human just because they aren’t like you. But categorizing someone strangles your conscience and chokes your ability to love like Jesus.
So I have this friend and long time follower of God Running who told me about an encounter he had the other day. He wants to remain anonymous so I’ll call him John.
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The Peace Prayer (a prayer for personal peace)
A friend asked me if I would be willing to write a prayer for us that we could say each morning to help us move to the peace end of the chart above. After praying about it . . .
The Coronavirus and You
Like you, whenever I look at my phone or my TV I see news about COVID-19. The reason it’s such a big deal is because every 100 years or so the world experiences a pandemic like the Spanish flu. That flu infected 500 million people and anywhere from 17 million to 50 million people died.
No one knew what was killing them. There were theories, crazy theories. People said it was because the planets were aligned a certain way, others said it was caused by bad oats from Russia, still others said it was caused by volcanic eruptions. Go easy on these people. We didn’t know about viruses until 1940. The Spanish flu happened in 1918-1920. And we didn’t know much about infection control either. Spanish flu patients were crammed together into rooms filled with cots. Read More
