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Old 07-23-2015, 02:08 PM
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Founder Edgar Love honored with highway marker in Harrisonburg, VA.

On April 18, 2015, the Love BDD Foundation, a product of the Beta Delta Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi, Inc. (James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA), sponsored the Labor of Love Weekend, in which a highway marker honoring Omega Founder Bishop Edgar A. Love was unveiled. Bishop Love was born in Harrisonburg, VA, where his father was a Methodist pastor.

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Old 08-10-2015, 01:02 PM
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Words about Founder Edgar A. Love

The following words were were written about Omega Psi Phi's first Grand Basileus and co-founder, Bishop Edgar Amos Love, by Dr. Herman Dreer, Omega's first historian, in The History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity: A Brotherhood of Negro College Men, 1939: ""How fortunate it is that the first Grand Basileus of Omega was a man of God, full of vision, sensitive to justice, a believer in his race and humanity, and a crusader, courageous like the prophets of old! In the beginning there was for Omega the inspiration of religion."
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Biography of Bishop Edgar A. Love

A very interesting and well-written Master's thesis which incorporates the social history of the times (esp. the efforts to obtain civil rights for African Americans) and the biography of Bishop Edgar A. Love, a co-founder and first Grand Basileus of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., is linked below.

http://utdr.utoledo.edu/cgi/viewcont...-dissertations

This writer once owned a cassette recording of an interview of Bishop Love, made in the early '70s, not long before he died. He talked about the founding of the Fraternity and his ministry in the now United Methodist Church. The sentiments that he expressed in the interview coheres exactly with the portrait drawn in this thesis. He was outspoken and of strong opinions when it came to advocating for the marginalized and standing up for what he felt was right. He had a love for young people and a strong sense of joie de vivre. This all came from from a deep understanding of Christianity as being centered on Jesus Christ and a wholistic view of the Christian life, which necessarily encompasses the spiritual, social and the political.

He gave an example from his ministry as a pastor in Washington, PA (outside of Pittsburgh). He said one afternoon as he was sitting on his porch working on his sermon notes for the upcoming Sunday service he heard someone walking on the porch. He thought it was his wife but it turned out to be a young boy from the neighborhood who was nicknamed "C". He greeted "C" and asked him what he wanted. "C" said that he wanted to play a game of horse shoes. (Bishop Love loved to play sports with young people in his church;he played football and baseball in college and was a high school athletic director after college.) So he stopped his sermon preparation and played a game of horse shoes with "C". He said they had the best time. He related this story because he said that later that year during the time of the year when his church held revival services "C" joined the church. He said this is what Christianity is all about--that's evangelism.
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