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We can be sure in time or sentence.

We can be hope for those that are hopeless.

We can be loved for those who feel that they have pain in their heart.

We can be understanding for those who are confused.

Welcome to the jesuscalling podcast.

This week we're celebrating freedom day or what is more commonly known as gym teeth.

The oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Anthony Ray Hinton is an American activist writer and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985

murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama.

Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row for 28 years.

During that time he befriended a member of the Ku Klux Klan and through that friendship that man

moved from a life of hatred to a love for people of all races and a love for God.

Ultimately Anthony was found to be innocent of his charges and was released from prison.

Dr. John M. Perkins has been a counselor to six presidents,

a community development leader and a civil rights legend.

Dr. Perkins grew up in Mississippi and was born during the height of Jim Crow and the Great Depression.

The loss of his mother due to malnutrition and his brother who was killed by police

after his return from World War II shaped Perkins life and ultimately inspired him to pursue

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