Author: Deji Okegbile

You create the identity you want for yourself, just as my ancestors did when they were given their freedom. Because in 1865 when slavery was abolished in the United States, former slaves had to choose a name. A surname, to be exact. Perhaps the closest thing to connecting me to my ever-complex family tree, my longing to know where I come from, and the commonality that links me to my bloodline, is the choice that my great-great-great grandfather made to start anew. He chose the last name Wisdom. He drew his own box – Meghan Markle The best way...

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy (1 Cor 7:14).  A follow up to our gospel reading last week in reference to Jesus’ love to us as the Father loves him by asking us to “Go and bear fruits” (fruit of the Spirit and Conversion of souls) provides a helpful link to the call of sanctification (Jn 15). Today, in our gospel reading from John 17, Jesus, our true friend and not...

The answer and solution to mankind’s misguided thinking that brings about war, violence, pain and suffering is found in “Thy kingdom come.” The Kingdom of God, under the direction of Jesus Christ, must come and save man from himself.   1 Thy kingdom come, O God, Thy reign, O Christ, begin; Break with Thine iron rod The tyrannies of sin. 2 Where is Thy rule of peace And purity, and love? When shall all hatred cease, As in the realms above? 3 When comes the promised time That war shall be no more, Oppression, lust, and crime Shall flee...