The Porch

08/06/2026

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
~
Meryl Streep

08/06/2026

Personal weakness can become a platform for divine strength.
Lola Janelle Thrower

08/06/2026

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. — 1 John 4:9 (KJV)

08/06/2026

"Mustard-seed faith is sufficient; mountains do not require mountain-sized faith."
Rodney Corbin

08/06/2026

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
—G.K. Chesterton

08/06/2026

God's grace is not a one-time event but a lifelong supply line.
Lola Janelle Thrower

08/06/2026

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — James 1:19 (KJV)

08/05/2026

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.
4 Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;
but we in turn regarded him stricken, (Isaiah 53:3–4, CSB)

08/04/2026

He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

08/04/2026

James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 – April 28, 2018) was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. Cone was born on August 5, 1938, in Fordyce, Arkansas, and grew up in the racially segregated town of Bearden, Arkansas. He and his family attended Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church. He attended Shorter College (1954–1956), a small AME Church junior college, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Philander Smith College in 1958.

James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 – April 28, 2018) was an American Methodist minister and theologian. He is best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of th...