White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

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WTL Conversations [S3E5]: Sixty Years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

WTL Conversations [S3E5]: Sixty Years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

A Conversation with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, and Rev. Jim Wallis

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WTL Conversations [S3E5]: Sixty Years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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Ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday last year, I reflected on the sanitized and selective memory of most white Christians have of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King:

White people regularly dilute the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to be more palatable. No one is more prone to this temptation than we white Christians who want t…

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