The 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, tells the story of an engaged couple, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton. Joanna (Houghton) takes her fiancé, Dr. Prentice (Poitier), home to meet her parents, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Joanna and her parents are white. Dr. Prentice is black. It is 1967. Joanna’s parents are shockedContinue reading “GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER. Acts 10:11-16.”
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Beauty.
Actor Sidney Poitier said something that amazed me. He grew up with no running water, no electricity—and no mirrors. “I didn’t know what a mirror was until I was ten years old. I never thought about what I looked like.” CAN YOU IMAGINE!? Poitier grew up surrounded by people who ignored appearances. Contrast that withContinue reading “Beauty.”
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