Reflective Renewal offers thought-provoking meditations, poems, and social observations. This collection of reflections grapples with the hard questions in life and challenges readers to look at “fitness” in a whole new light.
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Back in the 1980’s there was a movement underway called “multicultural education.” The goal of the movement was to broaden people’s perspectives about culture in order to make them understand that there was more than one right way to view the...
"My mother’s great Aunt Belle modeled a kind of Spiritual Renewal process for me when I was a little girl. Aunt Belle lived in a third floor walk up on east 67th Street in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. To get to the bathroom in her apartment,...
You had no right to steal my life
Minding my own business, I was satisfied
To play the child I was entitled to be
Then you stunted my development
Ripped out my joy, disturbed my peace
Truncated my youth and killed my hope
Now as bitter and thankless...
"Domestic violence has been around for a very long time—dating back to antiquity. One of the earliest biblical accounts of violence in the home is documented in Genesis 4 when Cain slays his brother Abel (v 8). Another account describes a man who was...
