The Rev. Megan Castellan contrasts our modern economic inequality with historic injustice in an article for the Kansas City Star. In particular, she focuses on one of the final speeches of Martin Luther King, where he decried the high unemployment rate and low wages for black workers. From the Star article: In 1968, King was […]
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Photograph: Murdo Macleod The former archbishop of Canterbury announces an upcoming Shakespeare project, explains how he still finds inspiration in his writings, and reflects on the difficulties of being archbishop, in a short interview with Robert McCrum for the Guardian. From the Guardian: Did he find Shakespeare any guide to being archbishop? “There’s plenty in Shakespeare,”
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Photograph: LG Patterson/AP Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori issued a statement on moving forward from the Ferguson decision which you might have missed; it came out just before Thanksgiving, just after the shooting of Tamir Rice, and a week before the Eric Garner decision. From her statement: I ask you to stand with hands extended in
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