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Lament for Las Vegas

By Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director

There are no words… and so my words come from the Psalms where laments make up the largest category. This lament from a portion of Psalm 142: With my voice I cry out to the LORD;     with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. I pour out my complaint before him;     I tell […]

Lament for Las Vegas

by Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director

There are no words… and so my words come from the Psalms where laments make up the largest category. This lament from a portion of Psalm 142: With my voice I cry out to the LORD;     with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. I pour out my complaint before him;     I tell […]

In the Face of Violence

By Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director

Today, Friday, August 18, 2017, South Main in Durham, NC, is closed to traffic. Civil employees have been sent home. Some banks and many businesses in the downtown area have closed early. And a group of people have gathered on the Courthouse lawn. All this because of the possibility that a group of White Supremacists […]

In the Face of Violence

by Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director

Today, Friday, August 18, 2017, South Main in Durham, NC, is closed to traffic. Civil employees have been sent home. Some banks and many businesses in the downtown area have closed early. And a group of people have gathered on the Courthouse lawn. All this because of the possibility that a group of White Supremacists […]

Post-Charlottesville: What Trump Said, and When

By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate

When President Trump stepped to a White House lectern on Monday and rebuked the instigators of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., that had erupted two days before, he was essentially doing what he’s said to do often on the golf course – taking a mulligan. This time, he got off a pretty good shot. […]

Post-Charlottesville: What Trump Said, and When

by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate

When President Trump stepped to a White House lectern on Monday and rebuked the instigators of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., that had erupted two days before, he was essentially doing what he’s said to do often on the golf course – taking a mulligan. This time, he got off a pretty good shot. […]

Response to the Violence in Charlottesville

By Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations

Before I came to call the great state of North Carolina home, I was a proud Virginian for the first twenty-six years of my life. I grew up in a small, rural town 90 miles south of Charlottesville and spent some of my most formative years just on the other side of the mountain at […]

Response to the Violence in Charlottesville

by Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations

Before I came to call the great state of North Carolina home, I was a proud Virginian for the first twenty-six years of my life. I grew up in a small, rural town 90 miles south of Charlottesville and spent some of my most formative years just on the other side of the mountain at […]