Memorial Day 2025 – Remember!
From Energion Publications author Elgin L. Hushbeck, Jr.
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Dr. Dolly Says … Ask Your Mama!
Dr Dolly Says …ASK YOUR MAMA! By Dolly Haik-Adams Berthelot © 2025 If you are fortunate enough to still have a Mother this Mother’s Day, let’s consider getting to know her a little better. How do you do that after maybe “knowing her” for decades? ASK SOME QUESTIONS! And listen to her answers. Really listen….
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God Hears the Cries of the Poor
As Amos contends, God hears the cries of the poor, and God’s voice speaking through their pain challenges all of us, but most especially those wielding power and enjoying prosperity, to listen to God’s messages spoken through the voices of the voiceless, homeless, evicted, malnourished, desperate, and hopeless, whether in Appalachian coal country, inner-city Chicago,…
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Empty Nest
I will go through the house and turn on all the lights.Then I will go and turn them off one by one.When I come to yours. I know the tears will fall.I will sadly turn it off and say, “I love you” and say, “good night.” (The Empty Nest, p. 18) Tabitha Edwards-Walton, Poetic Life…
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Book Focus: The Value of Each Person
Similar to Thurman, Whitehead asserted that value and experience are coextensive with reality and that each creature has value apart from their use to others. Disregard and diminishment of another’s value goes against the grain of metaphysics and morality in an experiential universe. Bruce Epperly, The God of the Growing Edge, 21 (emphasis added) Discover…
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Celebrating the World: The Commonwealth of Nations
Today, March 10, 2025, is Commonwealth day. The Commonwealth of Nations includes 56 countries with 2.7 billion citizens. You can find a list of members here. Read about the celebration, with the theme, “Together we thrive,” here. Not at all a bad theme! (Featured image credit: ID 361335081 @ Prakash Shaw | Dreamstime.com)
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Celebrating the World: Brunei
Brunei’s national day is February 23, commemorating independence from the United Kingdom in 1984, which actually occurred on 1 January.
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Celebrating the World: Cooperative Republic of Guyana
February 23 is Mashramani in Guyana, commemorating the declaration of the republic. Because I lived in Guyana during my teen years, I want to include a couple more pictures. Featured image: General Panorama of Georgetown with the St George’s Cathedral centered. The Cathedral is the world’s tallest freestanding wooden structure. Photo taken in 2007. Photo…
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Take and Eat: Eve’s Offspring Will Win
Things would get worse for the serpent. In Genesis 3:15 we have the protoevangelium, or the first piece of the “good news,” which has come to be known as the gospel. God told the serpent, although ultimately speaking to Satan, that he “will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and…
