How could we, as victims of disability or crime, be a catalyst for change? Is it hopeless for us to do anything? Or must we give up, using radical acceptance to help us deal with the anger and frustration? Looking back at Britain’s Slave Trade when things must have seemed hopeless from the slaves’ point […]
Read More...Are you inspired by Dickens’ story? Looking at your own life, you too must remember bad times. Some of them might have been incredibly bad times. Or maybe you’re still in the midst of them. You, like Dickens, may find yourself inspired to tell others about them. Don’t put the idea aside and tell yourself, […]
Read More...Having been a journalist, I imagine Dickens would have had a habit of carrying a notebook to collect the ideas he had going around in his head and to describe the people he met. If cameras had been invented, he might very well have become a photojournalist, so in love he was with capturing […]
Read More...Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7th, in 1812. He loved reading and had a positive childhood. John Dickens, his father, was a Navy Pay Officer, making a good wage. Despite this, the family was poor because of overspending and incurring a lot of debt. By the time Charles Dickens was […]
Read More...Picture above – Coal miners Child labor was especially common in the late 18th century, during the early years of the Industrial Revolution. The cities were overcrowded with people looking for work in the newly developed factories and mines. Poor sanitation, disease and pollution made them miserable places to live. Workers barely made enough […]
Read More...William Wilberforce was not the only person who developed a passion that he felt called to pursue. Every individual whose story is featured in this series had something they felt strongly about. And each of them was different from the others. For Wilberforce it was slavery. And for the next person we will look at—Charles […]
Read More...On May 25, 2020, an African American man named George Floyd was brutally killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. One of four police officers who arrived on the scene, had knelt on Floyd’s neck for a period, initially reported to be 8 minutes […]
Read More...Wilberforce once said, “To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate.” Wilberforce’s purpose was to […]
Read More...Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 Have you ever lived through an injustice that feels so bad—so hopeless that you’d like to die? You desperately look for a way out—a way to fight back—a way to overthrow—to overcome. “Oh God!” you cry. “There has to be […]
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