I wrote this letter to the editors of my local paper today. I hope they post excerpts of it soon: _______________________ August 29, 2013 Recently our Representative, Mrs. Susan...
This morning I was driving up to Chicago for meetings on Immigrant Ministry, in what has become, in my opinion, a spiritual successor to the Civil Rights Movement. Today...
Here are Some Things That Are Stuck in 1984… The A-Team: MTV’s Max Headroom: The Karate Kid: Van Halen’s “Jump”: Knight Rider: The 2013 Immigration Debate in Washington: The...
I won’t list the things I’m thinking about, but I will confess to you that of late I have “heard things” that make me feel some more intense emotions....
A fifth way to respond to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is to be ever vigilant. Yes, I must start by celebrating and then confessing, which...
So far in this series on Five Ways to Respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail, we’ve talked about celebrating the progress that has already been achieved, confessing the...
I am cross-blogging today on a series Christin Taylor has written recently. We often talk about homosexuality in heated terms and don’t ask hard scriptural questions about it, and...
The first way I’m trying to respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail is to celebrate progress. So much ground has been gained, yet we cannot stop at that...
In the spring of 1963 eight white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote an open letter with a thinly veiled reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an “outsider”...
Happy Star Wars Day! Luke: May the 4th be with you Leia: And also with you Han: I know MEANWHILE… Many will celebrate by tweeting about it or liking memes on...
It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This is a short series on “Five Ways to Respond to...
Emily Nielsen Jones is President/Co-Founder of the Imago Dei Fund, foundation in Boston, MA. Her “Women’s Liberty Bell Blog” connects with others to Establish Justice for girls and women....