Today as I get ready to chow down on a hot dog, watch a neighborhood parade, and enjoy watching the “Yingling Three – Lila, Rebecca, and Frances Lee” scream with delight at fireworks, I think about one of history’s greatest unlikeliest.  The assembly of unlikely characters to declare independence from injustice and to draft an…

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A modern day unlikely is Rosa Parks. Unlikely in the person and unlikely was the result of a small defiant act. I actually was living in Montgomery, Alabama for part of that time. The people who I grew up with, went to school with, and played with did not hold her in the high regard…

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Moses is one of my favorite unlikeliest. First, he was an escaped murderer (Exodus 2:15) and by his own words was an illegal “alien residing in a foreign land.” (Exodus 2:22) (As an aside I suspect he wouldn’t be eligible for US citizenship despite marrying Zipporah). Hardly, the character portrayed by Charlton Heston, let’s examine…

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This Saturday we travel to the West Coast to confer with the Sufi Masters, Tom and Casey Milne. Yes, he is the same Tom who is the recipient of my Letters to Tom series that appears from time to time in the Pew. I don’t know about you, but I find my faith and beliefs…

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My friend JR reminds me that this summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of both his and my moving to Little Rock from Montgomery, Ala. to be juniors at Hall High School. Neither of us knew a soul, and speaking for myself I was sure my world had come to an end. I didn’t even know…

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