Otis Moss III, Trayvon Martin and Fl Tea Party NRA

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =202112721

Strong congregational moment Sunday at Moss Trinity Church in Chicago. Listen online if you can to the congregation's reaction in this 7 minute spot on NPR Sunday morning.

Moss has much more credibility than Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh.

Still the bigger picture of the Austin Texas proff on the risk taking a person takes when carrying a concealed weapon is the subject now at hand. The Tea Party NRA gun laws on which the Southern Baptist Convention, Black president et. Al is largely silent.

I think I know where Bonhoeffer, Lincoln and Judge Frank Johnson are on this one. Where is Trey Gowdy and FBC Orlando Florida, for example?

[Stephen Fox]

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/15/stand-ground-laws

Has Russ Moore engaged this segment on NPR. If so what has he said to the Tea Party House Southern Baptists Gowdy and Oklahoma's James Lankford?

[Stephen Fox]

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... me/277960/

[Stephen Fox]

Quoting a friends facebook post:

1) The Daily Caller isn't exactly a neutral source. 2) Making this some sort of "women's rights" issue is a red herring. 3) NO ONE is questioning or reviewing ANYONE'S right to "defend my wife and children from a home invasion." In theory, yes, it sounds good that as a law-abiding citizen, you should not have to retreat before defending yourself. IN PRACTICE, however, it's a very, very good thing to have that legal requirement in place before bullets start flying. Here's why: in states with stand your ground laws like Florida's, legally, the smartest thing you can do in ANY altercation involving guns is to make sure the other guy is dead and can't testify. It's not all that hard to take ANY situation and make a jury believe that you feared death or great bodily harm. Again, in theory, stand your ground laws are good; in practice, they are going to lead to more and more shootings (or they have already, depending on which research you believe). But on the bright side, gun manufacturers sales will continue to go up, as will NRA membership, which -- let's be honest -- is REALLY what at least some of this is about. Fear is good business.

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=20945

Dad was chaplain for summer camp for Atlanta congregation where Bookout was the youth minister the summer of 60 or so. At the time Dad was pastor of Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, N.C.

A grand tradition in a Grand Baptist, Colin Harris

Harris son teaches math at Furman
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=20945

Will attempt to get this to the attention of Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Bama House. My facebook post at his FUMC Auburn was deleted.

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archi ... te_racist/

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/a ... ct-edition

Check my comment on this piece at the link above.

[Stephen Fox]

I just called his office and asked them to bring my blog on him and Trayvon to his attention. Most significantly the Jelani Cobb piece in the current New Yorker which is exquisite on the matter. I hope to link it soon.

In the meantime hope some of you will take at look at my blog you can click on below.

Sfox

[Stephen Fox]

I asked Gov Bentley about the Menand piece

and brought both to the attention of Speaker Hubbard of the Auburn Network

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/a ... rge_menand

And the Jelani Cobb definitive piece on Trayvon and Stand your Ground

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2 ... _talk_cobb

[Stephen Fox]

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallace-b ... _ref=false

[Stephen Fox]

In the movie the wife of The Butler, played by Oprah, slaps the son who had become a Back panther and mocks his Father for honoring Nixon. It's gonna be interesting to see how Anthea Butler navigates all this, as well as the Black United Methodist proff at Emory who had reservations with The Help. At this moment I'm not weighing in, just saying I anticipate Anthea Butler's review of this flm.

For me I'm there soon as I can get there when this Movie opens

Toni Morrison is a better novelist than Alice Walker. If nothing else this could be the redemption of Oprah for the Color Purple, which for sure had its Now Testament passages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUA7rr0bOcc