A Shout Out to Dorothy Height

I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom…. I want to be remembered as one who tried. ~Dorothy Height From About.com: Height was one of the few women to participate at the highest levels of the civil rights movement, with such others as A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, jr., and Whitney Young. At the 1963 March on Washington, she was on the platform when Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Dorothy... 

Written by Melia on April 29, 2010
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Was Jesus the turning point?

He spoke to women, he asked their advice. He defied the rule that said women were inferior. He trusted them, he loved and guided them. He may have even married one. He came at a time when the fear of God was everywhere, and people may have been turning back to their “old ways” of worshiping a divine feminine deity. Whether Jesus was real or fabricated, he was the greatest manifestation of public relations that the world had seen. “I’m not so bad,” says God, “I’ll... 

Written by Melia on February 15, 2009
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