AFRICAN PLUME

By Akin Ojumu There's no excuse for violence. Nothing justifies looting and destruction. I consider myself a man of peace and a lover of concord. Violence of any kind offends me greatly, and I’m never in accord with any form of discord. Any destruction of lives and properties sticks in my craw. That said, the condemnation of the violent reaction to a violent act without an equal demonstration of outrage towards the violent act that led to the violent reaction will continue to perpetuate the cycle of violence in the society. To express righteous indignation to lawlessness while being mealy mouthed about the cause of the lawlessness is nothing but manufactured outrage; an insincerity of the highest order. Violence will always breed violence; it is the natural law of cause and effect. To every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. The looting and burning we see occurring on the streets of cities across America is the lashing out of people whose elastic limit of to

I heard the sad news today, and it shatters my heart to smithereens. Jon Steingard, the lead singer and songwriter of the Christian musical band, Hawk Nelson, in a lengthy message posted on Instagram 6 days ago, renounced the Christian faith. The road Jon took to atheism is a familiar one. Adam and Eve took the same thoroughfare and our world continues to reel from the damning consequence. It’s so painful to see the man who wrote many songs that brought healing to many hearts (including the video below) go on to write such soul crushing message questioning the existence of God. It just crushes my heart and makes me want to weep as another soldier of the Kingdom fall in the eternal battle against evil. LORD, on behalf of Jon Steingard, I pray for your mercy. Draw his heart back to you. Restore Him to the saving knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  _____________________________ This is not a post I ever thought that I would write, but now I feel like I really