I have always admired the mobility of God’s people in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. When I was a younger woman, I considered moving to Europe to pursue a career as an opera singer. I had visited several countries during my College years and had become enamored of, first, the way Europeans treated me as a Black woman, and second, the sheer number of opportunities open to a singer. This desire was heightened when, in the 1980s, I started traveling back and forth to Switzerland and France to...

Weekly Devotion 1 John 1:5-7 (ESV)   5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.   John wrote three letters. In his first letter, believed to be written in Ephesus, he...