Randy Nabors's profile

In case you are interested, I will tell you a little about myself. My origins are important to me especially as to how they seem to both affect my present situation, or to be in ironic contrast to it. I was born in Memphis, TN and my father was born and raised in Mississippi. Those Southern roots would have surely led me far away from my passions and my commitments that I hold this day, unless of course the Lord had intervened.
He did intervene in "another" way, however, and that was through the dissolution of my parent's marriage. My mother took the children up to New Jersey, her home, and we were raised in the North. Not only the North, but in a racially changing, and racially charged city. Newark, NJ formed me in many ways, and even there I believe race, and racism, would have engulfed me without the liberating love of Christ in my life. In that city I may very well have come to racist attitudes due to the violence, and as a reaction to the fear and fighting that I had to live with as I grew up in an inner city neighborhood. It is God's mercy that not only saved me but took me into the love and deep and lasting friendship with African Americans, to include inter-racial marriage. Reconciliation is not simply an idea to me, it is not simply a cause. It is a way of life.