The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

  WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARE HELL BENT ON REPEATING HISTORY ©Wendell Griffen, 2021     Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global recently wrote an article reporting on the defeat of a Black pastor who had served for 17 years on a public-school board in Houston, Texas. The defeat was orchestrated by right-wing white parents opposed to critical race theory and intersectionality (although there is no evidence that public high schools are teaching critical race theory and intersectionality).   https://baptistnews.com/article/houston-pastor-voted-off-local-school-board-by-angry-parents-who-called-him-a-black-liberal-racist/#.YbsqHGjMK8U   We have not seen the end of the behavior Mark Wingfield reported about. Sadly, many white right-wing opponents to public education claim to be followers of Jesus.   Nicholas Clairmont said that “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” That quote is most likely borrowed from writer and philosopher George Santayana who originally

  VACCINATION OR NOT – LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ©Wendell Griffen, 2021 University of Pretoria, South Africa September 20, 2021               Two years ago, the term Covid-19 was not part of our vocabulary. Most people would have stumbled in speaking the term “novel coronavirus.”   The world had survived bouts with influenza and Ebola virus in prior years. But infectious disease experts, public health officials, physicians, politicians, lawyers, judges, courts, journalists, and everyone else in the world did not know about Covid-19. It did not exist in September 2019.   Two years later, Covid-19 defines how we live, move, work, study, worship, entertain, and conduct the other rituals of existence from birth thru death. What began as a new viral infection in one province in China, spread across that nation, spanned the world in a matter of weeks, and made globalism real in new ways.   Scientists and medical professionals worked harder and faster than ever befo