Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls. Timothy B. Tyson
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  1. If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
  2. The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually...
  3. The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.
  4. It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.
  5. In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
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