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Hi, I'm Jim Denison, a Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Wednesday,

June 2nd, 2021. The title is, Survivor remembers the Tulsa Race Massacre, a redemptive step that can

help to heal our nation. Mother Violet Fletcher was seven years old when the Tulsa Race Massacre

began. At a recent event, she described what

happened to her. She said, I still remember all the shooting and running, people being killed,

crawling and seeing smoke, seeing airplanes flying in a messenger, going through the neighborhood,

telling all the black people to leave town. Then she stopped speaking. Even after 100 years, the memories of that

horrible day can still overwhelm her. As another sign pointing to the enormity of this tragedy,

a full excavation of Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa began yesterday. Searchers are looking for mass

graves from the 1921 massacre. Researchers found

12 unmarked graves in the cemetery last year. Authorities expect the current excavations to take

weeks or even months due to the number of burials they expect to find. These stories remind us that

long after this week's centennial remembrance of

the massacre, its consequences will persist. What can you and I do to combat the sin of racism

and heal its wounds? Yesterday we learned from Acts 6 that our first step must be to recognize

discrimination in our own hearts and respond to it with

repentant hearts and redemptive actions. Today we'll discuss our second biblical step, one that can

help to heal our nation. The early Christian movement was anything but homogeneous. Jesus' apostles

were men from Galilee, but his movement also included women, people from Jerusalem and Judea, and Samaritans, Gentiles, and Romans as well.

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