Chicago never needed Jim Crow signs to enforce segregation; when equality threatened white comfort, flight and fury did the work just as effectively.

Cracks don’t just happen in buildings. They also occur in relationships.

The deep boom of drumbeats, especially when I hear them coming from a distance, is a call for and to attention. Each beat has its meaning, whether it is a call to gather or a call to take cover or a call that a new life has made its entry.

Each Friday in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

Dramatizations of history, like Netflix’s “Death by Lightning,” can be parabolic. We learn something about human nature and the inevitable choices we must make, no matter what station we arise to in this life.