Category: Simone Monique Barnes
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Sermon: Grandma’s Hands
I love Kwanzaa. Yesterday, I got to spend time with a group of friends who have become like family at our 5th annual Kwanzaa karamu. It’s a potluck dinner filled with kids, and adults, and elders, and lighting candles and good food…and spontaneous moments of drumming, and singing, and chanting, and remembering our ancestors. It…
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Sermon: Alexander Crummell
Honoring Our Saint: The Reverend Alexander Crummell UBE Sunday – Sunday, September 17, 2017, 8am and 10:15am St James Episcopal Church, Austin TX, USA Sermon by Simone Monique Barnes I want Jesus to walk with me I want Jesus to walk with me All along my pilgrim journey I want Jesus to walk with…
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An Open Letter to the McKinney Pool Youth
Dear #McKinneyPoolParty Youth, I am sorry. I am sorry that the focus is on you and not on the many adults who contributed to this situation. I am sorry that the color of your skin caused some people to make you feel like you did or did not belong. I am sorry that many of…
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