Application Of Your Faith Will Change Your

Because Others Have Let Us Down, It Is Now Our Duty To Face The Hard Truths And Do The Right Thing--no Matter The Personal Cost.

I Beg You, Look For The Words 'social Justice' Or 'economic Justice' On Your Church Web Site. If You Find It, Run As Fast As You Can. Social Justice And Economic Justice, They Are Code Words.

So We Went On What We Now Call "the Beck Family Church Tour" And Man Did We See Some Churches.

When You Aren't Drinking Or Using Drugs Or Spending Lots Of Money On Fancy Toys Or Basking In The Glow Of Fame Or Working All The Time Or Eating Your Way Through The Refrigerator, Being Hateful And Angry Is A Very Handy Shield From The Truth. It Lets You Focus On Everyone Else's Shortcomings, And All The Ways They Have Let You Down. You Can Bemoan How All These Broken People Keep Finding You Somehow. That Way You Don't Have To Focus On What Really Matters -- The Tough Work Of Fiing What Is Broken Inside You.

How Blind To Believe The Civil Rights Movement Ever Ended. The Civil Rights Movement Never Ends, And It Never Will. It Has Been Marching Since The Beginning Of Time. Where Martin Luther King Started Is Where Gandhi Left Off, And Where He Started, Abe Lincoln Left Off, And Before That Whitfield All The Way Back To Moses. God Has Not Moved. We Have. But It Is Never Too Late. We Are Not At The Mercy Of These Events. We Can Alter The Course Of History. We Can Stand Against The Dangerous Arc Of This Story. But We Need People Who Are Willing To Speak Truth.