I’m not a person that does a lot of watching the TV. I also don’t listen to the radio very much. So Monday morning when I got up and pushed the search button on the radio of my car. I was very much shocked at hearing about the horrific mass killing that happen in Las Vegas. Somehow in the back of my mind I wanted the anchorman to say “ Just kidding ”, or “ you’ve been pranked ”, or I would have even accepted “ April fools ”   But none of this happened;   All I could hear was the astronomical numbers of nearly 50 people killed and 400 people injured. And throughout the day these numbers swelled to nearly sixty killed and over 500 people injured.  Somehow this man came to the Mandalay Bay hotel with 10 large assault weapons and fired into a crowd of people enjoying an outdoor concert. And our response to this type atrocity, this complete and utter dismissal of respect for the human life, has never been to legislate stricter laws concerning gun control. So there...

Please leave a comment at the bottom of the page Diversity in the church is a product of modern advances in society in general, reflecting on Christianity specifically. In America where there has always been two churches, a black church and a white church, desegregation for Christ seems to be the right next movement of the American body, s than a diverse church was inevitable.    When I moved from North Philly to the Greater Northeast one of the changes I would have to make was where I would worship my God. So I left a 100% black church to join a multiracial church in my new neighbor.  One of the advantages of being a member of a racially, and ethnically  diversified church, is that we (the congregation) have found a way to accentuate those things in Christ that we have common, while at the same time diverting our attentions away from those things that that make us different. This allows people of very different backgrounds work together with...