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The Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin (Part 2) - Day1 Conversations with Peter Wallace

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The Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin sits down for part 2 of his interview with Day1 host Peter Wallace as they discuss Dr. Franklin's perspective on the future of the church, the role of faith in his life, the state of freedom in the United States as well as the state of the Martin Luther King Jr. archive of papers housed at Morehouse College.
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Dr. Thomas Lane Butts: Strangers to Ourselves

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts (UMC)

One of the most important aspects of growing up is learning to take charge of and responsibility for one’s own life. The complete dependence with which we begin life as infants must slowly and surely be replaced by independence. While no one ever gains complete independence - by our very nature we are not complete within ourselves - a healthy independence is essential to maturity.
 
Sometimes people are threatened by the healthy growing independence of people they may wish to keep dependent, and thus under their control. It is not unusual to see a subtle (and sometimes not too subtle) battle develop along these lines between parent and child or husband and wife. But taking control of one’s own life is a natural process. Some of the most profound parenting mistakes I have seen have to do with parents not knowing when to keep control of a child and when to turn loose. There is no set formula you may follow. Only parents who are sensitively and lovingly involved in the maturation of their children will know when.

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