Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teac….

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help ….

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them..

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedienc….

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting thing….

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional na….

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth..

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mas….

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus..

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind..