Faith & Belief – Life @The Corner of Faith & Justice

To Hunger and Thirst for Justice…

Feb 25, 2025

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in community, Faith & Belief, Justice, Millennials, Social Justice, The Gospel Reimagined

Photo by Murilo Soares “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice…, for they will be satisfied…”(Jesus) “Don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash, son…” (Charles Portis) The Civil Rights Movement was led by a generation of marginalized and exploited minorities who through years of social and political turmoil…in faith, put…

Salt, Light…& Leaven

Feb 9, 2025

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Robert Caldwell

in community, Faith & Belief, Millennials, Race & Restoration, The Gospel Reimagined

Going to Church with my Grandmother As a child, in the 60’s, Church was not very engaging to me. But like many of my generation, I had to go. Most Sundays, we (meaning me, my sister, and my cousins) went to Church with our Grandmother. The routine was to spend Saturday nights at her house, wake up…

A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet…

Oct 1, 2024

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Robert Caldwell

in Faith & Belief, The Gospel Reimagined

This line from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet often brings to mind a dear friend and Mentor of mine who is now in his 90’s. Over the years when I visited him he would often call me John, which was the name of a childhood friend of his that he loved. In some way I…

Am I a Person of Faith?

Sep 1, 2024

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Robert Caldwell

in Faith & Belief, The Gospel Reimagined

In America, Baseball and Football are two sports that most of us are familiar with. Though there are several similarities between them, these sports are, in a fundamental way, vastly different. For example, both sports have teams made up of several players; both have a ball that is thrown and caught; and both, when on…

Yes, there is only one Race, the Human Race, but…

Aug 12, 2024

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Robert Caldwell

in Faith & Belief, Race & Restoration

By Keith Reynolds & Robert Caldwell It’s likely that we’ve all heard someone say something like, “We don’t have all these races. There’s only one race… the human race.” While that may, in essence, be true, American values and social norms have established structures that sort us into racial, ethnic, gender, class and ability identities.…

There are no Atheist in Foxholes…

Aug 7, 2024

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Robert Caldwell

in Faith & Belief, The Gospel Reimagined

I recently heard again this familiar idiom “There are no Atheist in Fox Holes”, which in a snarky way is intended to say when facing death even Atheist cry out to God.

Teaching Truth

Jun 7, 2024

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Robert Caldwell

in Faith & Belief, The Gospel Reimagined

Why do you think Jesus embedded truth in stories, parables, illustrations and metaphors? Because people learn in a variety of ways, truth should be communicated in ways other than just the didactic left brained information exchange we are all accustom to… By embedding truth in metaphors, stories, illustration, and parables… it allows it to be…

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