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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Jesse Jackson - keeping hope alive

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With Rev. Jesse Jackson’s death last week and all the homegoing ceremonies starting today, lot of memories bubbled up for me. Jackson, of co...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Bread, Circuses and Power

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Sermon at Windsor United Church of Christ, Feb. 22, 2026 Video here -  https://vimeo.com/1166184495  - about 33 minutes in   Psalm 1 ; Matth...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

A Jefferson son - Eston Hemings - in Madison

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As I was exploring Thomas Jefferson’s amazing home at Monticello earlier this month, I thought about the children he had with Sally Hemings....
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Needing a place, finding a place

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As Rev. (and Sen.) Raphael Warnock was winding up the service this morning at   Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta he had done the classic c...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Andrew Young remembers, inspires

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It was 90 minutes of stories and insights from Andrew Young, a key aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., a member of Congress, an ambassador to t...
Friday, February 28, 2025

A day of contrasts

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It’s the last day of Black History Month. And it was a day when we were immersed in Black history in very emotional ways. And just a note – ...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

A legacy leads to the present moment

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We entered the   Legacy Museum   in Montgomery as if riding in on the giant waves projected on the screen in front of us, words telling us a...
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Phil Haslanger
Phil Haslanger is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He retired in 2017 but recently served part-time as a parish associate at Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison, WI. Most of his adult life, he was a journalist, working for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. Now he serves on the advisory board of the University of Wisconsin Center for Journalism Ethics and of the Religion News Service and is on the board of Pres House campus ministry. He is married and has four grown children.
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