My prayer on MLK Day: Forgive us the sin of patience

There’s a time for reconciliation, for prayers for unity and healing. This is not such an hour.

January 16, 2017

Martin Luther King's arrest in Birmingham, 1958

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(RNS) December 1955, Holt Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.

That day, a courageous community activist, Rosa Parks, had been forced off a city bus and jailed.

The church is called to be a loving critic, not a national cheerleader.

In September, Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde will travel to her mother’s homeland at the invitation of the Stockholm Cathedral.

Jerry Falwell wanted to prepare America for the end of the world. Ted Cruz’s evangelical backers want to take America over.

A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.