Even in the Hard…Celebrate

In South Africa, August 9th is celebrated as Women’s Day, commemorating the 1956 march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the implementation of pass laws. These laws required that South Africans defined as “black” carry an internal passport, which further maintained segregation, controlled urbanization, and managed migrant labor during […]

This Month’s Theme: Celebrate

Habakkuk 3:17-18 (CSB) Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls, yet I will celebrate in the Lord; I will rejoice in […]

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