This morning Walmart feels so emboldened by Trump and Project 2025: Walmart is canceling their DEI policy, and they will no longer support LGBTQ . They call Lowe’s woke policy.
I am going to shop only at Target and Lowe's. I will not shop at Walmart or Home Depot.
Robby's reiteration of lines from the songs performed that night in Atlanta, one about the cost to our children, echoed lines from James Russell Lowell's (founding editor of The Atlantic) poem that used to be in our hymnbooks:
We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great,
Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid the market's din,
List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within,—
"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood,
Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,
Famished in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day,
Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable prey;—
Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play?
Really, the entire 19 stanzas inspires me to not shrink away from The Present Crisis we're facing.
I just finished watching this. Crying. Sheesh, Jemar. For someone who says he's completely depleted, you gave so much wisdom and insight and power in this conversation. Of course you all did, as always, but Jemar, you really sent the arrows of truth into our hearts. We white Christians absolutely must join with black Christians in the goal of justice, but we must let black Christians take the lead. We must be the wind beneath your wings, to trot an oldie!
A particular thanks to Kristin Du Mez because I will return to calling myself a Christian. This was something I had abandoned in favor of Follower of Jesus, but this feels important to me.
Thank you Dr. Tisby for talking truth about the black experience and forcefully asking white folks to quit thinking about feelings and relationships. It was an appropriate response to require white folks to step up and understand they must be ready to make a difference to those of us who will be in danger...
This morning Walmart feels so emboldened by Trump and Project 2025: Walmart is canceling their DEI policy, and they will no longer support LGBTQ . They call Lowe’s woke policy.
I am going to shop only at Target and Lowe's. I will not shop at Walmart or Home Depot.
Robby's reiteration of lines from the songs performed that night in Atlanta, one about the cost to our children, echoed lines from James Russell Lowell's (founding editor of The Atlantic) poem that used to be in our hymnbooks:
We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great,
Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid the market's din,
List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within,—
"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood,
Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,
Famished in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day,
Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable prey;—
Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play?
Really, the entire 19 stanzas inspires me to not shrink away from The Present Crisis we're facing.
I just finished watching this. Crying. Sheesh, Jemar. For someone who says he's completely depleted, you gave so much wisdom and insight and power in this conversation. Of course you all did, as always, but Jemar, you really sent the arrows of truth into our hearts. We white Christians absolutely must join with black Christians in the goal of justice, but we must let black Christians take the lead. We must be the wind beneath your wings, to trot an oldie!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
A particular thanks to Kristin Du Mez because I will return to calling myself a Christian. This was something I had abandoned in favor of Follower of Jesus, but this feels important to me.
Thank you Dr. Tisby for talking truth about the black experience and forcefully asking white folks to quit thinking about feelings and relationships. It was an appropriate response to require white folks to step up and understand they must be ready to make a difference to those of us who will be in danger...