Author Archives: Eduard Loring

Tickets and Healing at the Pool

By Eduard Loring After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha. A large crowd of sick people were lying in the porches — the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. A man was there [...]

James Brown Is My Brother

Amid the foothills of the Appalachian mountains stretching east into the Piedmont area of the Carolinas marched the hungry textile mills.  The mill owners were hungry and thirsty for profits.  The Piedmont had lots of cotton, picked by black hands, and lots of mill laborers   mostly white folk.  So from the north came the looms, [...]