Heeding the call for healing The 2026 observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the 41st observance of the holiday. Its theme — “Mission Possible 2: Building Community, Uniting a Nation the Nonviolent Way” — already felt challenging in a politically polarized era. With
For starters, we’ve oversimplified his message On January 15, we might have remembered what would have been the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but his celebrations this year are on one of those more convenient Monday holidays that make for three-day weekends. There
Nations have a habit of sanctifying people and events that might otherwise disturb the system by cleaning them up so that their memories actually celebrate and promote the status quo, especially its business. When President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed May 9, 1914, the first Mother’s Day,
Read the rest of the Via Creativa: Island of Misfit Toys series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for Epiphany Sunday: Then you shall see and be radiant. (Isaiah 60:1-6) They left for their own country by another road. (Matthew 2:1-12) Be wise and help all
Their press release has this heading, “National Coalition of African-American Ministers Stand Together to Protest Same-Sex Marriage in America.” In the press release are these words, “We find the opposition’s attempt to yoke their homosexual agenda to that of the Civil Rights Movement extremely disturbing.”