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(RNS) — After the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer, the co-editors of the new Bible say they felt compelled to do something.
THE SAME Bible that was used and abused in keeping the enslaved under oppression, is the same one that contains and affirms the good news of freedom and dignity for all human beings. After the Haitian Revolution, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed...
And so her final remark—as best I can remember it—had a power borne by her depth of experience and the immediacy of hearing her in person: “We may not be here together again, but we were here today.”
Though Juneteenth commemorates a moment when enslaved African Americans were freed, the US is still held captive by several myths about slavery.
The Bible is central to literacy, and literacy is central to missions. The Bible and learning to read are gifts we can and should give away.