In a broadcast from Egypt I heard on the radio, during the recent demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a reporter asked one Egyptian woman what she hoped would come of the protests.
Hundreds of church leaders,
politicians, and charity workers gathered in Ethiopia [January 27] to pray for the African Union Summit [scheduled to start on January 31].
Pulled over by a cop in what seemed partially an incident of racial profiling, this Black man was able to turn to God and hear a quiet, internal message: God was present, and his prayers to see this officer as his brother were already being answered.
I grew up in a Christian family where religion had an important place, and I remember how my father often told me stories from the Bible, such as those of Joseph, Moses, Elijah, and Daniel.