USA: Hope Beyond Our Ignorance - Daily Inspiration

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I still have much to learn about these neighbors, but time with them buoyed my hope in God at work to overcome fear, prejudice, and rancor toward a world more reflecting, what Christians call, God's Kingdom. 

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Source/Credit: The Post-Standard
By Rev. Jim Kerr-Whitt | July 29, 2013

Talking in my living room, a dentist, a businessman and I discovered we have much in common, including grandchildren living in faraway places (a hard thing for grandpas) and the pleasure of spoiling these grand-kids when we can.

Also convictions like: honoring God in all relationships, God's justice and love, and God's definition of "neighbor."

Until this, I was unaware of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

I still have much to learn about these neighbors, but time with them buoyed my hope in God at work to overcome fear, prejudice, and rancor toward a world more reflecting, what Christians call, God's Kingdom.


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Rev. Jim Kerr-Whitt is a 20-year pastor at the North Manlius United Church, an American Baptist Congregation. Rev. Kerr-Whitt received his Master's Degree in Theology from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.




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