My prayer on MLK Day: Forgive us the sin of patience

There’s a time for reconciliation, for prayers for unity and healing. This is not such an hour.

January 16, 2017

Martin Luther King's arrest in Birmingham, 1958

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(RNS) December 1955, Holt Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.

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