I attach this without editorial comment.

Quick, tell me what’s wrong with this sentence:

While in the Dominican Republic, the characters in the story do not fall under the shadow of racial prejudice, however, in the United States, it is clearly shown that Dominicans live, as Fanon states in the above quote, “…in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race.”

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One day on my mission (wait, don’t tune out just yet), my companion and I were out tracting, weaving our way down the streets of a middle-class Chicago suburb. Of course no one was interested, so it was a fairly pointless exercise. We knocked on one door, and a girl of 18 or 20 answered the door.

“Oh! She’s not here right now, but come on in!” she eagerly greeted us.

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are working to help end the starvation in Niger. This intrafaith cooperation on aid gets much less publicity than it should (at least out where I live). It’s pretty common for my sophisticated secular friends to bash religion in general, and then of course I mention relief efforts like this and ask them what they’ve done lately to help the poor and oppressed. Usually, they mumble something like, “well, I guess churches do some good things.”

The disappearing posts of the Times and Seasons are the stuff of legends.

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