Posts from 2015

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Christmas…Christians…and Refugees

December 3, 2015 by FOLCAdmin

Last month, the four year Syrian crisis hit home in the United States in a more visible way than ever before. Governors all across the United States, including the State of Georgia where I live and the State of Texas where I was reared, began protesting the Federal Government’s decision to allow Syrian refugees into […]

Stick Your Neck Out

November 23, 2015 by FOLCAdmin

“Behold the turtle: he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” James Bryant Conant The other day, as I was reading, I came across this quote that stopped me in my tracks. Immediately, my sermonic antennae went up and my theological telescope took focus. James Conant (1893-1978), former president of Harvard University, brings […]