Zombie Politics

I highly recommend checking out Myron Medcalf's piece up on the Strib's page . Here is a taste... The man who died on that balcony i...

(1963, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Sermon: Three Dimensions of a Complete Life, Start Page 67,...

(1963, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Sermon: Three Dimensions of a Complete Life, Start Page...

Every year, I put up a post on Dr. King's day about how far we have come in terms of civil rights. This year, I honestly can't do ...

The film Selma isn't good. In fact, it's poor. Most of the reason for this is Ava DuVernay, the director of the picture. In looki...

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge ...

Jesus recognized the need for blending opposites. He knew that his disciples would face a difficult and hostile world, where they would conf...

And any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that cripple the souls—the econo...

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader co...

The Friday before Dr. King's birthday, I always have students ask me what I think of Dr. King. As I invariably do, I ask them what they ...

As I think about Dr. King on his day today, I find a question continually percolating back up to the surface of my mind. Would he be happy...

They all stared in disbelief at what they had just heard. The man who had become the center of the civil rights movement had quietly told th...

Last fall, The Christian Science Monitor featured race as the cover story to their September 18, 2010 issue . I had planned to talk about it...