Tag: Faith

In a world where joy and unity may seem impossible to achieve, millions of Jehovah's Witnesses have "united" together virtually to stream their six-part annual summer convention featuring the theme "Always Rejoice"! The program which is available in 511 languages worldwide was designed to be released in six installments, each corresponding to a morning or afternoon session of what would have been three successive convention days. The final two sessions of this convention program will be streamed on jw.org on the weekends of August 22-23 and 29- 30, completing this historic event for the Witnesses around the globe.

Our world seems pretty messed up right now and that’s probably an extreme understatement! China is still behaving badly, Hong Kong is under siege, the middle class in Venezuela is suffering under socialism, and North Korea is still under a ruthless dictatorship! And unfortunately, to that nation-challenged list I would sadly now add our own America.

Let’s suppose for just a couple minutes that you go to bed one night and when you wake up in the morning you have partial memory loss - a little amnesia. You vaguely remember getting up in the middle of the night for a drink of water, spilling some on the floor and slipping on it.

America is facing three immense and immediate crises. Each has a critical moral dimension that has been notably neglected from much of our national leadership.

Imagine for just a minute you’re walking through a department store and you happen to pass by the cosmetic counter. There, covering the countertops, is an array of lipsticks, face powders, blushes, mascara, and, of course, an abundance of mirrors!