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Martin Luther King: 'A Stone of Hope'

A little more than a month ago, April 4, 2018, to be exact, we remembered the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. Here at Old South Church we heard excerpts from some of his speeches that played all day in the Sanctuary and were even broadcast out onto our sidewalk. People came in to hear or stood outside to listen again to that familiar voice proclaiming that segregation and racism were antithetical to the Christian Gospel. Younger folks heard his voice perhaps for the first time.

The Time Has Come: Beat Guns into Plowshares

The time has come. Indeed, many will say that the time has long past that we, as a nation, deal with our addiction to guns. Over these past years there have been mass shootings in schools, theatres, churches, and in other public gathering places. The death toll climbs. But the recent school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14th, may well have been the ‘tipping point’.

Behold, I Tell You A Mystery!

Reflections on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

On Ash Wednesday we enter the six weeks of Lent, leading us to Holy Week and its attendant journey through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. In our country and culture we find ourselves in a time of great division, competing values, and strident, argumentative discourse. In the face of all of this, in my own Lenten discipline this year, I have felt called to use the prayer: “Holy One, give me the strength, courage, and wisdom not to add to the polarization before me and within me.”