Honest Reflections on MLK Day
" Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." - Amos 5:24 Sitting in a jail cell for protesting racial injustice he wrote his now famous " Letter from a Birmingham Jail " to southern clergymen to encourage them to live up to their calling as Christians and support him in his fight against the injustices experienced by the African-American community. (I encourage anyone who has 25-30 minutes to spare to read it. It one of the greatest documents on justice ever penned.) Ever the theologian, Dr. King deftly uses the Christian tradition to set the stage: "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry...