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Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Carnival. The last festive day before the forty days of Lent. It's hard to imagine letting the good times roll in our own communities as Putin's tanks roll toward Kiev. They are already in Kharkiv. The Russians are committing war crimes, while Ukrainians fight for their country,

These words by Phil Snider, a pastor at Brentwood Christian Church in Springfield, MO, really spoke to me. I hope they will speak to you, too. He's a favorite writer of mine and I hope you will read more of his stuff. As if our world could take one more thing. War is ruined time.

The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but

At some point, they stopped waiting... or at least stopped waiting so expectantly. For some, maybe the first or second generation of followers, they stopped after a few months. For others, it would be much longer. Others held true to the promise, to the hope. Jesus hadn't come back. But he said he would. And

Focusing solely in MLK's Dream is to whiten him, to make him palpable to white audiences by focusing solely on something that can be easily and readily shared: a dream.