The Same Race

While watching a Star Trek episode, we explained to Jordan that that show featured the first interracial kiss on TV, between Kirk and Uhura. His response?

But they're the same race!!

I'm glad he sees it that way. Maybe we've made some progress since that kiss caused controversy back in the '60s.

You know, in some sense, "diversity" and "purity" can be considered opposites. There is a place for each of them. 

When it comes to race, I am firmly in the diversity camp. Groups which seek "racial purity" are rightly seen as a menace. Neighborhoods that are racially, ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse are rich places. Where we can cooperate, we can mine those riches -- learning and growing together.  As we mix and marry, work and live in such places, we come closer to understanding that we are all of the same race. Also we need a diversity of ages, genders and skills in order to function in healthy fashion. 

The Body of Christ also benefits from these types of diversity. 1 Corinthians 12 tells about the different gifts God has given. Also, Galatians 3:27&28 tells us.  "So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,  for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

So celebrate te diversity God has given. Sometime soon, more on purity.

Have a blessed day!

It doesn't take eight hours to charge a cell phone.

I just mention this because many people plug their phones in every night, while they sleep.

Nothing wrong with that I suppose. It is certainly a convenient way to do it and ensures that you always have a charged phone, but....


if you want to save money and reduce your carbon footprint, you could just charge your phone when it needs it and unplug it when the charging is complete. The same goes for cordless landlines, laptop computers, Ipods, etc.


Another quick way to save money and energy is to turn off GFI plugs when they are not in use.

Any other ideas?

Adoniram Judson's Prayer for More Missionaries

Just a prayer. It resonates today, though the world is now on our doorstep as much as it is overseas  (and the word "heathen" isn't exactly pc)...

O God, have mercy on the churches in the United States…
continue and perpetuate the heavenly revivals of religion
which they have begun to enjoy;
and may the time soon come when no church shall dare
to sit under Sabbath and sanctuary privileges
without having one of their number to represent them on heathen ground.

Have mercy on the theological seminaries,
and hasten the time when one half of all who yearly enter the ministry
shall be taken by thine Holy Spirit,
and driven into the wilderness,
feeling a sweet necessity laid on them,
and the precious love of Christ and of souls constraining them.

Hear, O Lord, all the prayers
which are this day presented in all the monthly concerts
throughout the habitable globe,
and hasten the millennial glory,
for which we are all longing, and praying, and laboring…
Come, O our Bridegroom; come, Lord Jesus!

~Adoniram Judson