This is something that's been going around in my head for a while, so I'm just going to say it.
The question is not whether Black Lives Matter - we all agree that they do - the question is WHEN does a black life begin to matter?
We all know by now (whether or not people are willing to acknowledge/admit it, or whether or not people choose to live in denial of it) that Planned Parenthood was founded by racists as a eugenics project, specifically meant to decrease the number of people of color in the population. But what a lot of people don't know is that it is STILL this same ongoing project, as it generally targets lower income neighborhoods full of people of color when it comes to deciding where to put its "clinics." More black lives have been ended by abortion than by "gun violence" or systemic racism or whatever. I daresay that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would be horrified by abortion - in any case, his niece, Alveda King, is a pro-life activist. She gets it.
So if you want to say Black Lives Matter, you need to say that they begin to matter at conception, because otherwise, if they don't matter from conception and when they are most vulnerable, then they don't matter at all. Needless to say, all human lives matter from conception. And if not, what does that say about Jesus, who became human in his incarnation, which happened at his conception?
This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App
Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.
Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.
Enjoy!
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
As I'm going through all my belongings as part of our move, I have come across some audio CDs of my old music, from when I had my band, Remember Rome - if any of you still have a CD player, and you would like me to send you some of what I have, send me the address to send them to at this email address: [email protected]
Some of these CDs are in their original cases, and some were demo samples, but either way, it's all original music written by me, and performed by me and my band back in the late 90s and early 2000s.
I'll be happy to find a good home for these CDs in case you might enjoy them, and because you all have been supporting me (and I haven't produced much content in the last month or so) I'll send you one or more CDs for free. Just give me an address.
Thanks!
Here's the link to the new edition of my Rome book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Second-Pilgrims-Guide-Eternal/dp/B0F8TGTWZX
