by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Jan 13, 2020 | Opinion
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, I would love to hear parents in their homes and speakers in auditoriums focus on King’s April 16, 1963, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” There are gems galore in that letter. Reading it, I am most drawn to the inseparability of...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
In the late 1970s, I was a not-yet-30-year-old pastor with four or five years of grassroots ordained experience under my belt. I was serving a congregation of fewer than 50 members in south-central Los Angeles, in a converted restaurant located in a community whose...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Jun 8, 2006 | Opinion
I’m tired of being told to be nice. Niceness doesn’t change the condition of the world very much. Niceness often requires persons trying to be nice to choke to death on too much bile. I praise God that the most authentic baptistic Christians the world has...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Jun 8, 2006 | Opinion
I’m tired of being told to be nice. Niceness doesn’t change the condition of the world very much. Niceness often requires persons trying to be nice to choke to death on too much bile. I praise God that the most authentic baptistic Christians the world has...
