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Robert Turner: A Portal to the Past and Future
Make yourself at home. You’re about to take a journey with your friends. Before you begin, please introduce yourselves to one another as members of a family.
Make yourself at home. You’re about to take a journey with your friends. Before you begin, please introduce yourselves to one another as members of a family.
The door of a Norfolk, Virginia farmhouse opened to the sound of a baby’s soft coos. Robert Chaittle Turner had entered the world.
“O friends! Be not careless of the virtues with which ye have been endowed, neither be neglectful of your high destiny....
Storytelling offers a doorway to empathy. It allows us to see into the hearts through understanding eyes.
O Divine Providence! Perplexing difficulties have arisen and formidable obstacles have appeared. O Lord! Remove these difficulties and show forth the evidences of Thy might and power.
O Thou kind Lord! O thou Who art generous and merciful! We are the servants of Thy threshold and are gathered beneath the sheltering shadow of thy divine unity.
The tradition of “testifying” holds a place in many cultures and communities. What do you think it means? On the stage of life or on a real stage, how can we bring illumination to this darksome earth?