Tag Archives: Theodore Parker

“Truth crushed to earth will rise again”

By Mark | October 7, 2018

I’m reminded today of something that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the February 8, 1958 issue of the Baptist magazine Missions. “Those of us who call the name of Jesus Christ find something in the center of our faith which forever reminds us that God is on the side of truth and justice,” Dr. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Byron, Atlanta, Brett Kavanaugh, Buttermilk Bottom, Caesar, civil rights, concentration camps, Donald Trump, evil, Jesus Christ, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, moral arc, Nazi, Ned Cartlidge, nonviolence, truth, William Cullen Bryant, Wöbbelin | 71 Comments

Do all of us older folks need to die before things get better?

By Mark | February 28, 2018

A few days ago, in response to a post that I’d written about the young leaders emerging from the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, there was an interesting exchange between two of our favorite commenters, Jean [the first comment above] and Lynn [the second comment above], about, among other things, the idea that sometimes, for true […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged aging, aging population, assault weapons, Barack Obama, Climate Change, DAY, Defend Affordable Ypsi, fear of death, Grace Lao, gun control, international youth movements, Jean Henry, life and death, Linette, Lynn, Martin Luther King, meditations on death, Moms Demand Action, moral arc, on facing death, Parkland | 248 Comments

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