Religion

PRESERVED: When God answers your prayer

By Shewanda Riley Columnist There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. – Teresa of Avila. We know what to do when God hasn’t answered our prayers. First, we repent. Then, […]

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P R E S E R V E D: God’s pruning

By Shewanda Riley Columnist A few years ago, I attended the University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference in Denton, Texas where television journalist Soledad O’Brien was a keynote speaker. As part of her […]

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P R E S E R V E D: A spoonful of sugar

By Shewanda Riley Columnist “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down….in a most delightful way” are lyrics from one of my favorite songs from the Mary Poppins movie soundtrack. Maybe it’s because I […]

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Preserved: Put down your brick!

By Shewanda Riley Columnist We all have a story. Perhaps it’s the result of an experience where we learned more about ourselves or where we sawourselves differently after doing something that we said we’d never, […]

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P R E S E R V E D: Faith reaches forward

By Shewanda Riley Columnist “It’s a mild 45 degrees outside now but the high today will be close to 70 degrees.” As I listened to the morning television meteorologist finish the rest of his forecast […]