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  • Freedom Prayer (2)
    • kathy: I am ready to live free of the devastating effects my mother’s mental/emotional illness has had on me...
  • Still, a Child of God (7)
    • Wes Ellis: I read your column with great interest. I, too, am a “convert” to the Episcopal Church, the...
    • Margaret Hinson: Yea! Malcolm, Would you believe that Jimmy and I had often wondered if you would consider serving as...
    • Jerry Jacob: Malcolm, This is something else we have in common. I, too, came from mostly a Baptist background. Maundy...
    • Sherri Shepherd: Interesting to me how so many children of Baptist preachers defect. Some have said that the pressure...
  • The Samuel Prayer (5)
    • teodora contreras: as soon I wake up early morning, I talk to the Lord, Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening. Then I...
    • Jeff: Nice mantra.

Letting Go

My mind and thoughts are rambling today.

Seven years ago, 2002,  I was single and wondering if I would ever get married again following my divorce in 1996.   I couldn’t find what I was looking for in a life partner.  So, I asked myself the question, “Where do I want to live, what do I

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Walking with Wylie

Recently I was out for an early morning hour walk for exercise in downtown Birmingham, walking from the Southside to the Northside and back again.

As I walked on 18th ST and 6th AVE N, I came upon a man in his 30′s about a half a block ahead of me.  We made eye contact

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Whole-Hearted Loving

I was recently leading a group discussion at The 1917 Clinic around the theme of love with the following two questions:

“What does it mean to love with your whole heart?  How does this kind of love change you, others?”

I asked the same questions of my “Facebook Friends” and I

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Abomination

This may be one of the most boring posts I have written on my blog.  Why?

I prefer to tell stories because I think we learn best from the experience of others, and God speaks to me clearest through interaction with others.  But, for years I have heard some of my Christian friends talk

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