Tag: justice

• Abraham Lincoln – as Mim’s Grandfather remembered him

  Last summer Mim spent many days systematically going through boxes and boxes filled with old papers, photos, and books that had belonged to her parents and grandparents. One yellowed newspaper, carefully protected in a waxed paper-like envelope was the Decorah Public Opinion from Decorah, Iowa, dated Wednesday, February 10, 1909. That is the year Abraham…

  Marian

  February 10, 2023

  Blogs, Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Abraham Jacobson, Abraham Lincoln, court house, court room, Decorah newspaper, Decorah Public Opinion, justice, Lincoln's birthday, Micah 6:8, Mim's grandfather, personal reminiscences, Springfield, Springfield Illinois

• “This Little Light of Mine” and a Home Town Protest

  Well, it happened again. I turned up too much information, and I need to share it somewhere. It’s too much for the book I’m writing, so I guess it needs to go into another blog post, just like the last time this happened, when I wrote about “It Came upon the Midnight Clear.” This time…

  Marian

  June 24, 2020

  Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  alt-right, Bank of America, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, Epiphany, freedom song, home town protest, justice, Let it shine, National Anthem, Occupy Wall Street, protest movement, protests, Seasonal Hymns, Talking with God through Music, This Little Light, Unite the Right rally, white supremacists

• Today’s Politics Should Prompt New Hymns

  I’ve been working on my next book of reflections on hymns, and just completed the story behind “O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee.” The writing of this hymn was prompted by the social and economic conditions in the United States following the Civil War. As I was explaining the context of this hymn to…

  Marian

  September 26, 2018

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  age of technology, Congregational minister, Congregational pastor, extreme poverty, extreme wealth, horrid Washington crew, hypocrite, industrial age, injustice, justice, MARYTON, O Master Let Me Walk with Thee, social gospel, social gospel movement, Washington Gladden

• Something I Started To Think about in Fifth Grade

  I was about ten years old when I first tried to understand what the terms “socialism” and “capitalism” meant. My fifth grade teacher was Mrs. Borgerud, and she very patiently tried to explain to the class the core beliefs of each political/economic system. Back in the ‘50s, we all knew that the United States was…

  Marian

  January 31, 2017

  Goals, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  America first, capitalism, do justice, early church, fifth grade, inconsistencies, justice, kindness, Love Kindness, Mary Borgerud, me-first, mercy, Mrs. Borgerud, role of government, selfishness, socialism, walk humbly, work hard