Randy Alcorn's Blog: slavery

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Sun, Dec 14, 2008
Randy Alcorn
Prolife
abortion, choice, civil rights, film, holocaust, human rights, randy alcorn, slavery, the doorpost film project, tim and matthew morgan, volition

Volition: a Terrific 15-minute Film

Four days ago I watched a short film called "Volition" that is extremely powerful and well done. It's a great investment of fifteen minutes. I watched it twice. I highly recommend that you grab a cup of coffee and view this, undistracted. Maybe have your family watch it together after dinner. I really like this one!

It was filmed mainly in three days in August on a small budget, to be entered in a short film contest. There's not much info on it on the web yet, so likely you haven't heard of it. But when you ...

Thu, Feb 12, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Christians, Past and Present (By and About), Prolife
abortion, abraham lincoln, civil rights, desiring god, evil, habakkuk, human rights, john piper, president, right to life, slavery, suffering

Lincoln's logic on slavery extends to all human rights

Happy birthday to my favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. While he still held to some racist stereotypes, he managed to rise above the worldview of his era and affirm the wrongness of slavery and the rights of all people.

What Lincoln wrote below applies not only to slavery and racism, but to other human rights issues such as sexism and abortion:

You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a ...

Tue, Feb 17, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Christians, Past and Present (By and About), Grace and Truth
amazing grace, grace, john newton, music, slavery, songs, spirituals, wintley phipps

A Look at the song Amazing Grace

Jackson slave ship It's black history month, a good time to learn about Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Jackie Robinson and a host of others.

Let me tell you about a white man who made his way into black history. Imagine a slave ship captain, a cruel Englishman who acquired slaves from Africa and transported them in horrific slave ships to be sold like animals at auction.

Imagine that this man later writes lyrics which become the most popular song of English-speaking blacks in the entire world.

Unthinkable?

If you've got eight minutes, watch this powerful video of Wintley Phipps, explaining the ...

Mon, Sep 05, 2011
Randy Alcorn
Missions
article, be the change, ethics, gospel, human trafficking, jesus, justice, lose your cool, love, passion, randy alcorn, slavery, social justice, zach hunter

Zach Hunter on a Christian Ethic of Social Justice

I know Zach Hunter. I met him and had dinner with him and his mom after a showing of the movie Amazing Grace, that great movie on the life of the Christian parliamentarian William Wilberforce and his success in passing the laws to ban slavery in England.