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CoF Post 1/20: An MLK Reflection
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CoF Post 1/20: An MLK Reflection

We observe Martin Luther King Day with a reflection on his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," penned in 1963 and precisely relevant today. King’s recognition that "we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality” made him "radical" in his day. That same recognition should make us all "radicals" today.

To be alive on earth today is to be an activist…or a moderate. Please be an activist.

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