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Jan. 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr
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I think everyone of us over a certain age is familiar with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, but I found his Letter from a Birmingham Jail to be even more profound and moving. I read portions of it to my kids today in the hopes that they could see what was going on at the time and have some semblance of understanding of what it must have been like. I want them to know that there are laws that must be obeyed because they are just and moral and Godly laws, but there are times when unjust laws must be ignored because they violate God's laws. I want them to know the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abedneggo; and Corrie ten Boom; and Martin Luther King, Jr, and others like them, because one day they may find themselves in the minority. They may someday have to fight for their freedom as a Christian in the 21st century in the same ways that King had to fight for his freedom as a "colored" man in the sixties. Of course their only question after my profound and emotional reading of the letter was "Do we have to write a paper on this?" Sigh. |
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