The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President,  or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State , who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. (Italics added). Insurrection means an act or instance of revolting against a civil authority. On January 20, 2017, Donald John Trump (Trump) took the oath of office as President of the United States (POTUS), having been duly electe...

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 January 3, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas   Since October 7, 2023, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have killed close to 22,000 people in Gaza. Most of them were women and children. The death toll includes teachers, health workers, humanitarian aid workers, artists, and more than 90 journalists. Since October 7, 2023, the IDF have wounded more than 50,000 people in Gaza. Most of them are women and children. Since October 7, 2023, the IDF have dropped more bombs on Gaza, an area about the size of Washington, DC, than the United States dropped in a year during its war in Afghanistan. Houses of worship, schools, universities, hospitals, and United Nations refugee camps have been bombed. The United States supplied the bombs, artillery shells, and other materiel used by the IDF in Gaza. The United States vetoed resolutions introduced in the United Nations Security Council that called for a bilateral ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza. Pro-Z...