Essay: The journey from the 6th January insurrection to Martin Luther King Day
EBOO PATEL, founder and president of US-based Interfaith Youth Core, says the very people who have been subject to the worst of the United States have embodied its best…
Essay: As the US marked another MLK Day, white evangelicals again have a choice to make on racial justice
In an article adapted from his book ‘The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism‘, JEMAR TISBY, says Martin Luther King, Jr, “saw an indissoluble link between the Christian faith and the responsibility to change unjust laws and policies”…
ESSAY: HOW A HERITAGE OF BLACK PREACHING SHAPED MLK’S VOICE IN CALLING FOR JUSTICE
In an article first published on The Conversation, KENYATTA R GILBERT, author of ‘The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching’, looks at how Martin Luther King, Jr’s voice was shaped by those who went before him…
SIGHT-SEEING: RELATING TO REJECTION
NILS VON KALM reflects on how Jesus and the example set by some of His followers sustains him during times of rejection…
BOOKS: FOLLOWING THE WAY OF CHRIST IN A JOURNEY TO BIBLICAL JUSTICE
DAVID ADAMS reads Sight contributor Nils von Kalm’s new book…
Clergy march in Washington against white supremacy
RNS People participate in the One Thousand Ministers March for Justice. PICTURE: RNS/Adelle M Banks From Protestant preachers to Jewish cantors to Catholic nuns, religious leaders of a range of faiths demonstrated in the nation’s capital for racial justice, criticising the silence of some within their own ranks on the subject of white supremacy […]
ESSAY: AN ACCIDENT OF BIRTH…
As Christmas approaches, NILS VON KALM reflects on what being born into a life of privilege means when there remains such injustice in the world…
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING – THE POWER OF PROMISE OVER REJECTION
MAL FLETCHER reflects on the life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr…