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More Than Civil

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:00:27 +0000

What stands out about Dr. King in this video is how he treated these people, and how he responded to the face of some pretty insidious seeming questions. He was extremely civil. In our day, these kinds of conversations would have been filled with lots of yelling and red-faced name calling. But that wasn't what Dr. King's dream was.

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Living the Dream

Jonathan Storment — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:30:21 +0000

It's easy to relegate Dr. King's vision for a more just world to a time of historic importance. But his was a vision without an expiration date, and it's one that makes important demands of Jesus followers for all time.

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Prophets and Heroes

Jonathan Storment — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:27:39 +0000

Sometime during college I went through a pretty significant transition about how I considered the gospel. I began to see it as good news for the world, not only in the age to come, but also in this time and place. And that transition, was due in large part, to a dead preacher from Alabama, [...]

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