Why do I support the Black Lives Matter movement? The full answer is far more complicated than this, but in the interest of brevity my perspective distills down to four reasons: A decade ago, I read Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" for the first time. It wrecked me. As a white man who was in his mid-20s at the time and wrote a blog entitled "Musings of a … [Read more...] about Why Do I Support the Black Lives Matter Movement?
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Echoes from the Past: Historical Reflections on the White Christian Vitriol Toward BLM
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "We are not makers of history; we are made by history." Some have taken this quote to mean history decides who we are because we're inevitably shaped and formed by the world. Yet in the larger context of the sermon, it becomes clear Dr. King was driving at the exact opposite meaning. It was about taking responsibility. Dr. King understood … [Read more...] about Echoes from the Past: Historical Reflections on the White Christian Vitriol Toward BLM
