Juneteenth offers an essential reminder to our spiritual lives
Freedom from anything begins by knowing you are free. Juneteenth is short for June 19th—a state holiday in Texas. It commemorates the day in 1865 that good news arrived: all slaves were free.

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But the news wasn’t new at all. The slaves had been set free long before, but that freedom had been a secret for two and a half years.
When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, effective on New Years Day...
Published on June 19, 2015 02:00