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Christian missions and the Western guilt complex
What actually happened in the encounter between Western missionaries and non-Christian peoples?
The gospel and the liberation of the poor
How can theology be black if the sources used for its explication are derived primarily from the white Western theological tradition?
Are there things a novelist shouldn't joke about? An interview with Kurt Vonnegut: An interview with Kurt Vonnegut
This article appeared in the Christian Century on November 24, 1976....
Hell on wheels
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver has to be one of the most disturbing films ever made....
Vietnam: No good ending
All along we felt that it would happen, but no speculation could comprehend the horror of its unfolding. There could be no “good ending” to this terrible war....
Seven days in Chile’s climate of fear
A report from Santiago, five months after the U.S.-backed 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet.
Incident at 18th and Michigan
This was the appropriate way to end that tortured week. It was one of those times when jail is a place of honor. We did not come to that decision hastily....
Why this non-God talk?
What had long been contended in secret is now shouted from housetops....
Selma: Sustaining the momentum
Two Century editors report from the second march in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 1965
Crucial questions for November 4: Presidential pick, California's Proposition 14
When "the tumult and the shouting dies" and the votes are counted on November 4, we shall first want to know who won the presidential election....
A straw in the racial wind
The Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Economist, writing several days in advance of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, predicted that however successful the marc...
Equality is not negotiable
Few American leaders could have made a better impression than did Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, and Martin Luther K...
Big Labor turns down Washington march
Against the urgently expressed desires of Walter Reuther of the Automobile Workers and Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, the central board of the A.F.L.—C.I.O....
The meaning of the march
Directions for participants in the August 28 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" and for the concurrent church assembly read like snatches from a John Bunyan allegory: "March from...
Marching orders
More than 100,000 people are expected to converge on Washington, D.C., August 28 in a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." It is estimated that three-fifths of the assembly will be Negroes a...
Integrate the integration march!
All major Negro organizations have joined in promoting an entirely legal and orderly freedom march in Washington on August 28....
Letter from Birmingham Jail
A vigorous, eloquent reply to criticism expressed by a group of eight clergymen.
Suffering and faith
Additional comments from Martin Luther King Jr. following his article for the "How My Mind Has Changed" series