Who Are We?
Who are we? We claim Elijah P. Lovejoy as a hero, but not the angry crowd that repeatedly gathered to throw his printing press into the river. The angry crowd that ultimately killed him. The angry crowd that made it…
Jesus Got Shot for You: The Gospel in Contemporary Images (or An Extended Allusion to Romans 1-8)
Walter Scott and Eric Harris, both unarmed black men fleeing from police, were shot and killed in the span of six days at the beginning of April. The officers who shot them have each been charged with crimes, and the…
So How Was the March?
God works so slowly that he seems irresponsibly patient. When rain falls from the sky it’s almost as if God intends it to bless the righteous and the unrighteous alike. And when the sun rises, both the godly and the…
Dr. King on Marching
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s thoughts on marching from the 1966 essay “Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” followed by a brief comment: When Negroes marched, so did the nation. The power of the nonviolent march is indeed a mystery….
What I Saw in Ferguson
I felt a new fear when six or seven police cruisers with lights and sirens on pulled quickly into the vacant commercial lot where our march was getting organized. I have felt nervous about getting a ticket before, but this…
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