By ANNIE TURNERA sermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church, September 13, 2020 WE ARE GOING TO START OUT ON A LOW NOTE, BUT I PROMISE YOU—WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL THAT WE WILL END ON A HIGH NOTE. I WANT TO SHARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO START MY SERMON, WHERE WE LOOK AT THE TRULY…
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By Annie Turner There are so many ways I need to up my game. I hope to explore a few of them including: exercise, gardening, cooking, but the most important is digging out the deep well of racism I am confronting in my 74th year. It doesn’t matter that I dated a Man of Color while at college. It does not…
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…
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…
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…