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Bob, today is June 20, is it not? Yes, it is, but this year, Father’s Day and Juneteenth coincide AND today is the official observance of our newest federal holiday<\/a>. So let’s do Juneteenth today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s what I wrote last year, and it still holds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we consider that June 19th (\u201cJuneteenth\u201d), 1865, marks the officially celebrated end of slavery in the United States, it\u2019s a day that should be remembered. Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, union forces landed at Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of slavery. (For more detail see this blog<\/a> and its references, as well as this post from Breakpoint<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We often forget that the God we claim to worship is on the side of the poor and oppressed. Recall what I wrote a couple of days ago: we’re all in this together<\/a>. Look what Jesus said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He came to Nazareth where he had been reared. As he always did on the Sabbath, he went to the meeting place. When he stood up to read, he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, God\u2019s Spirit is on me; he\u2019s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, \u201cThis is God\u2019s year to act<\/strong>!\u201d He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent. Then he started in, \u201cYou\u2019ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.\u201d Luke 4.16 \u2013 21, MSG, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John, meanwhile, had been locked up in prison. When he got wind of what Jesus was doing, he sent his own disciples to ask, \u201cAre you the One we\u2019ve been expecting, or are we still waiting?\u201d Jesus told them, \u201cGo back and tell John what\u2019s going on: The blind see, The lame walk, Lepers are cleansed, The deaf hear, The dead are raised, The wretched of the earth learn that God is on their side.<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 11.2 \u2013 5, MSG, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob, today is June 20, is it not? Yes, it is, but this year, Father’s Day and Juneteenth coincide AND today is the official observance of our newest federal holiday. So let’s do Juneteenth today. Here’s what I wrote last year, and it still holds: When we consider that June 19th (\u201cJuneteenth\u201d), 1865, marks the … Continue reading Juneteenth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1eL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}