Roughly fifty years ago, the streets of this country were burning. The Panthers were out in full force, policing their own neighborhoods and threatening to “Off the pigs” if the violence didn’t stop. Martin Luther King was calling for peace, even though some of his marches were criticized for ultimately inciting violence. Malcolm X was mesmerizing […]
“….by any means necessary”: Those words hung in the balmy June air of a New York ballroom some 52 years ago. Spoken by a man born Malcolm Little, known to posterity as Malcolm X. My suspicion is that many Christians aren’t very familiar with the work of Mr. X. He was a firebrand public and […]
Society is a complex conglomeration of shared traditions, memory, pain, and history. You often find tension in a society when an outside force challenges any one of those things, and the inevitable questions then follow. Is society an ever-changing blob that can configure to the time and people that make it up? Or is it […]
