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December 5
Pray: Lord hear Your words: 2 Timothy 2:3-4 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who had listed him as a soldier.
Lord hear my request: (Say your needs, wants, fears, thanksgivings) - In Jesus name I pray – Amen.
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These daily prayer PODs are constructed to help you in your prayer life.
December 4
Pray: Lord hear Your words: 1 Peter 4:8 And above all things we have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins.
Lord hear my request: (Say your needs, wants, fears, thanksgivings) - In Jesus name I pray – Amen.
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December 3
Pray: Lord hear Your words: 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
Lord hear my request: (Say your needs, wants, fears, thanksgivings) - In Jesus name I pray – Amen.
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December 1, 2022
By: Trimmel Gomes
Citing a religious exemption, Edward Waters
University - a private, historically Black school in Jacksonville - has shut
down its faculty union.
The news came weeks after the
university announced the inaugural leader of its A. Philip Randolph Institute,
named after a prominent African American labor leader who led a successful
campaign in 1925 to organize a union of Pullman workers and helped lead the
1963 March on Washington.
But Felicia Wider-Lewis, Ph.D - a former associate professor at Edward Waters -
said she will have to leave the school today.
She claimed the infrastructure deteriorated over the years, and efforts to
bargain with university leaders for better conditions failed.
"And I'm not trying to disparage the college in any mean way," said
Wider-Lewis. "But we were fighting for our rights - basically, you know,
for shared governance, for to have better wages and working conditions - all
the things that everybody wants, you know."
Classes just ended this week for the fall semester at Edward Waters.
The university declined to comment for this story, but in a
statement to the news organization The Tributary, it cited the
National Labor Relations Board's 2020 decision not to have jurisdiction over
religious schools.
The university stated it allows "EWU to be driven by its faith-based
Christian mission, rather than the political agendas often associated with
federal labor policies."
Wider-Lewis said the faculty union has been operating under the American
Association of University Professors.
Lengthy negotiations came to a sudden halt in May when the university sent a
letter saying it will not recognize the union - and since then, it has not.
"You know, the political arena right now, and previous in the Trump
administration," said Wider-Lewis, "more of the politics was that
anti-union stance."
Last year, the board of trustees of St. Leo University in Florida voted to no
longer recognize its 44-year-old faculty union.
St. Xavier University in Chicago took a similar stance, as have other religious
institutions - taking advantage of the NLRB decision, which
is related to a 2018 court case.
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