A strategy of
resistance
of standing for
justice, a movement
A groundswell of
mercy, of caring
comes from
changing the wind.
Giving new
direction for the weathervanes
politicians with
their wet fingers up in the air
catching the wind
and where it points.
Changing the wind,
the dialogue, the language
altering the
compass heading, the pole, the goal
changing the wind,
bending the arc of history
standing true to
the one cause of justice.
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edited
August 30, 2019
Changing
the Wind – v8
edited
January 16, 2017
Changing
the Wind – v6
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day 2017
(editing
original)
&
edited October
15, 2015
changing the
wind – v5
(editing version
2)
edited January 23, 2015
Changing the Wind – v4
(editing original again)
edited January
19, 2015
Changing the
Wind – v3
(merging edits
to original and version 2)
Edited July
22, 2013
“changing the
wind – v2”
December 7, 2007
“changing the wind”
Based on the comments of Jim
Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29,
2007
He was talking about whether to
change politicians
or change the wind, to change
the public opinion
which guides politics. He used
the example
of President Johnson’s
statement to the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting
rights bill but
it actually took 5 months to
pass the Voting Rights Act,
after the March in Selma.
&
edited
January 14, 2017
Changing
the World – v6
(editing
version 3)
two
days before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and
six
days before the end of the Obama Presidency
edited
October 31, 2015
Changing
the World – v5
(editing
original)
edited
February 2, 2015
Changing
the World – v4
(merging
edits to version 3 and version 2)
edited
January 20, 2015
Changing
the World – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 21, 2013
Changing
the World – v2
January
18, 2009
Changing
the World
edited
December 3, 2015
Words
in Quotes – v5
(merging
edits to version 2 and version 4)
edited
December 1, 2015
Words
in Quotes – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited
October 31, 2015
Changing
the World – v5
(editing
original)
edited
February 2, 2015
Changing
the World – v4
(merging
edits to version 3 and version 2)
edited
January 20, 2015
Changing
the World – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 21, 2013
Changing
the World – v2
January
18, 2009
Changing
the World
edited
January 20, 2015
Power
in His Words – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Fighting
Evil – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Love
Liberates – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
The
Power of His Words – v3
edited
January 20, 2015
Living
Christ’s Words – v3
edited
January 20, 2015
Not
Words of Weakness – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Hatred
– v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Radical
Words – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Understanding
this moment – v3
edited
January 20, 2015
Forty
Years – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Seeing
Joshua – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Choosing
the Cross – v3
(editing
original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Before
Martin – v3
edited
January 20, 2015
Echoes
of the Desert – v4
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
April 8, 2014
Echoes
of the Desert – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
In
His Ministry – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
The
Question – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Always
Torture – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
The
Hills of Zion – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Is
He Joshua – v3
(edited
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Lofty
Words – v3
(editing
original again)
edited
January 20, 2015
understanding
a moment – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Words
in Quotes – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Words
that Bind – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited
January 20, 2015
Words
chosen for a nation – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
&
edited
January 21, 2013
Power
in His Words – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
Fighting
Evil – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
Love
Liberates – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
The
Power of His Words – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
Living
Christ’s Words – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
Not
Words of Weakness – v2
January
21, 2013
Hatred
– v2
January
21, 2013
Radical
Words – v2
edited
January 21, 2013
Understanding
this moment – v2
January
21, 2013
Forty
Years – v2
January
21, 2013
Seeing
Joshua – v2
January
21, 2013
Choosing
the Cross – v2
January
21, 2013
Before
Martin – v2
January
21, 2013
Echoes
of the Desert – v2
January
21, 2013
In
His Ministry – v2
January
21, 2013
The
Question – v2
January
21, 2013
Always
Torture – v2
January
21, 2013
The
Hills of Zion – v2
January
21, 2013
Is
He Joshua – v2
January
21, 2013
Lofty
Words – v2
January
21, 2013
understanding
a moment – v2
January
21, 2013
Words
in Quotes – v2
January
21, 2013
Words
that Bind – v2
January
21, 2013
Words
chosen for a nation – v2
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
Invocation
by
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Inaugural
Address
&
several
poems written in 2009
on
the juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
the inauguration of Barack Obama
as
President of the United States of America
January
17, 2009
understanding
a moment
January
17, 2009
Words
in Quotes
January
17, 2009
Words
chosen for a nation
January
17, 2009
Words
that Bind
and
the Presidential Oath, from the
US
Constitution, Article I, Section 1, Clause 8,
repeated
verbatim by the presidents. The only language in quotes
in
the Constitution, unlike the general principles elsewhere.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully
execute the office of President of the United States,
and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and
defend
the Constitution of the United States."
January
18, 2009
Lofty
Words
January
18, 2009
Is
He Joshua
January
18, 2009
The
Hills of Zion
January
18, 2009
Always
Torture
January
18, 2009
The
Question
January
18, 2009
In
His Ministry
January
18, 2009
Echoes
of the Desert
January
18, 2009
Before
Martin
January
18, 2009
Choosing
the Cross
January
18, 2009
Seeing
Joshua
January
18, 2009
Forty
Years
January
18, 2009
Understanding
this moment
January
18, 2009
Radical
Words
January
18, 2009
Hatred
January
18, 2009
Not
Words of Weakness
January
18, 2009
Living
Christ’s Words
January
18, 2009
The
Power of His Words
January
18, 2009
Love
Liberates
January
18, 2009
Fighting
Evil
January
18, 2009
Power
in His Words
&
the
message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”
on
the sign in front of church,
the
story of Moses and Joshua,
Deuteronomy
34:1-12
Joshua
1:1-9
along
with
Micah
4:1-4
Matthew
5:43-48
the
sermon, “Love Your Who???”,
by
Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
Suncook
United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH,
and
the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for Attorney General,
by
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of waterboarding,
January
15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings,
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