Dear Friends, It was when I first moved to Atlanta to attend college in the late 1970s that I encountered the slogan that our city was one that was “too busy to hate.” It’s my understanding that Atlanta claimed this description because of the progressive views of some of its political and civic leaders […]
Dear Friends, I gathered from several comments I heard during this past Sunday’s service that I’m not the only one that is feeling cheerful at the prospect of spring. The daffodils, poking through the ground with yellow blossoms waving bravely in the breeze, are the usual harbingers in Atlanta. The crocuses in the front yard
Dear Friends, I gathered from several comments I heard during this past Sunday’s service that I’m not the only one that is feeling cheerful at the prospect of spring. The daffodils, poking through the ground with yellow blossoms waving bravely in the breeze, are the usual harbingers in Atlanta. The crocuses in the front yard
The arguments and facts contained in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness offer me – and, perhaps you, too – an important opportunity to awaken from our spiritual slumber. They offer us an opportunity to discover who we really are and where more of our time and energy may be needed in the struggle for racial equality.
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