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Sep 16, 2020
"Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again." --William Cullen Bryant
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "Where Do We Go from Here?" sermon at the annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The country was at a crossroads. The "evil triplets" of the times, militarism, racism, and poverty called for what King called a "radical revolution of values." Will we move in the direction of chaos or community? The question he posed so many years ago is piercingly relevant today. Read the full text of the speech here.
BE THE CHANGE
What is a step you can take now in the direction of "a radical revolution of values"? Where do you see community being nurtured in your life? How can you help expand and/or deepen that community?
