Tag: Birmingham
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Birmingham Revolution
Fifty years ago Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama, scratching out a modern epistle in the margins of a newspaper. The Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a direct response to a letter published in the local newspaper written by a group of Birmingham clergy who were critical of the civil rights…
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Grieving Every Slain Child
We welcomed a guest preacher at New Community this morning, so I took a few minutes before his sermon to reflect on the violence of this past week before we spent time in silence and prayer. Early on a Sunday morning in September 1953, four members of the Alabama Klu Klux Klan placed dynamite under…
David W. Swanson 