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The HISTORICAL JESUS likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century Jews from Galilee, a region in biblical Israel. But no one knows exactly what Jesus looked like. There are no known images of Jesus from his lifetime, and while the Old Testament Kings Saul and David are explicitly called tall and handsome in the Bible, there is little indication of Jesus’ appearance in the Old or New Testaments.
Read MoreThe deadline in the state of Missouri to request an ABSENTEE OR MAIL-IN BALLOT for the August 4, 2020, general election is July 22, 2020, at 5 p.m. Voters in Missouri currently can request absentee ballots only if they provide an excuse for why they can’t vote in person. Illness is one option … click through to learn more.
Read MoreJUSTICE-ORIENTED POLICIES would aim for equitable balancing of necessary pandemic resources. That means directing testing and health equipment toward vulnerable communities – as identified by COVID-19 tracking data and risk factors like housing density and poverty – and ensuring free, widespread vaccine distribution when it becomes available.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has forced our nation into an unprecedented emergency. The current emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer-term crisis — that of poverty and inequality, and of a society that has long ignored the needs of 140 million people who are poor or one emergency away from being poor.
Read MoreAs we begin PRIDE MONTH THIS JUNE, we are at a crucial moment in our nation’s history. There are oppressed people right now who are enraged at the devaluation of their lives by institutional and systemic discrimination, racism, and oppression. Stand with them – they’re our family.
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