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By Rev. Jamesina Greene A Mother’s Cry | The Redeeming Marketplace Ministries There are some truths that sit heavy in the spirit. This is one of them. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month , and while many will acknowledge it with statistics, campaigns, and symbolic gestures, I feel compelled to pause and say what is often left unsaid: Too many of our children are not safe. Not in their homes. Not in their schools. Not in systems designed to protect them. And far too often… not in...

Keep Hope Alive! A Liberation Theology Reflection: Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Gospel of Justice The transition of Rev. Jesse Jackson invites us not merely to remember a man, but to revisit a theology — a living witness to the truth that faith must confront injustice and that God stands with the oppressed. Liberation theology teaches that God is not neutral in the face of suffering. God is found among the marginalized, the overlooked, the imprisoned, and the poor. Rev. Jackson’s life embodied...

They told us to wait. To be patient. To understand that systems take time. But no one ever asks a mother how long a heartbeat can hold its breath. A Mother’s Cry is not noise. It is not hysteria. It is not weakness dressed in grief. It is love standing upright in rooms where power hoped it would kneel. It is truth spoken without permission to systems that learned how to punish before they learned how to listen. We are told justice is complicated. That reform is slow. That progress requires...