Celebrating the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Part 2)

Here, as a follow-up to my Friday post, is a second excerpt from Dr. King's now-famous letter, written from the Birmingham jail in March, 1963:      "Though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter…

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Celebrating the Life of Martin Luther King (Part 1)

In a political landscape populated by pygmies, I look back to a giant of a man —- Martin Luther King Jr. — whose life we celebrate on Monday. In him I find one of the most powerful witnesses for Christ that I have ever known.…

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