Posts by Jim Foudy (Page 11)

The 2020 Poor People’s Campaign

The Poor People’s Assembly was and is a powerful 3 hour and 22 minute on-line event. This event represented the 140,000,000 poor and low income people of this country (43%) who are struggling. To watch the broadcast of the PPA go to www.June2020.org, scroll down to “Watch the Broadcast” and click on it. The Rev. Dr. Barber’s terrific speech/sermon can be found at…

White People, I’m Talking To You

The Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian, associate pastor at Alden Baptist Church in Springfield, and former pastor of Haydenville Congregational Church, was a speaker at a Black Lives Matter rally in East Longmeadow on June 7. Here is her speech. Thank you Angela Thorpe, my sister at the Alden Baptist Church, for extending the invitation for me to speak at today’s gathering. You…

No Justice, No Peace

Kenneth L. Samuel “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” – Matthew 10:34 (NIV) The lethal asphyxiation of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, is just the latest in a series of black fatalities brought about by overzealous policing, racial profiling, and white vigilantism. When peaceful protests…

God’s love is visible every day in this pandemic

By Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian God is not angry. That is my professional opinion as a member of the clergy. We are living through a frightening, uncertain, sorrow-filled time so having bad theology circulating wildly on the internet — and that seems to be what is happening — only adds a further burden to our already heavy load emotionally and spiritually. Several…

Annie Turner’s Guide to Surviving the Pandemic

HOW TO SURVIVE THE PANDEMIC I imagine we are all biting our nails down to nubbins, as I did when a child and my parents put vile tasting nail solution on them to keep me from bringing blood. Huh. This is not a very cheerful way to begin a post about a pandemic, but then, nothing is very cheerful about it except…