By Caitlin Kerfin, York Daily Record. (Pennsylvania) Fifty years ago this December, Faith Presbyterian and First Presbyterian churches in York merged. It was one of a few such religious mergings of its kind in the country, with a white and black church coming together, congregation member Virginia Hunter said. She was born and raised in…
A senior at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, I was destined to head north for a Christian Ethics degree at Yale when I received a Deep South summons. From Selma, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dispatched a call for reinforcements, marchers who would accompany him on his trek to the state capitol building in…
Review by Joseph Williams, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this…
By Richard D. Land On a hot, humid summer day fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ascended into the pantheon of America’s national heroes when he delivered an oration for the ages. The March on Washington was a momentous moment in the long, hot summer of America’s discontent. Racial strife was widespread, sometimes…