“When you cannot see God at work, remember that God is still working.” @charliedates Retweet this if you’ve been resonating with our Melancholy sermon series.

I don't know about Chou En-lai, but I'm not a Marxist. I think the whole concept that Marx tried to lay down as a scholar, a historian, a philosopher, has been distorted. People became priests of Marx. I am not. - Huey P. Newton, 1973

“The white liberal must see that the Negro needs not only love but also justice. It is not enough to say, “We love Negroes, we have many Negro friends.” They must demand justice for Negroes. Love that does not satisfy justice is no love at all.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's a #MLKDay quote you will rarely see. It's strong medicine.

The twice forgotten man in America has always been the Negro. His groans were not heard, his needs were unfelt, until he found the means to state his case in the public square. ~#MLK

🧵Some more thoughts on the Christian and “social justice”: I think *part* of the evangelical aversion to social justice talk is that we tend to focus on individual concepts of sin/evil. We don’t have a category for social sin/injustice.

The half-time show was sooo good!

Important to see what is going on here: The DA isn’t defending the 6-year sentence as proportional to the crime. Instead, she argues that it’s your fault if you end up with a disproportionate sentence because you refuse to plead. That’s unjust — biblically unjust.

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To quote a brilliant young man, we don’t fight racism with racism, we fight racism with solidarity.

Such a fantastic essay! Thank you Dr. Michael F. Bird so nuanced and well written! michaelfbird.substack.com/p/the-case-for…

"You cannot remove struggle from life, but you can improve your ability to handle challenge." –James Clear

The gospel is never threatened because it is the Savior who ensures His kingdom will advance. — John Mark Yeats research.lifeway.com/2021/05/10/wha… via Lifeway Research

Rt if you can “smell” a storm coming

Two Kansas City police officers shot an unarmed 26-year-old pregnant Black woman Friday night. She exited a vehicle with her hands in the air and they shot her 5 times. But they can’t run into a school where kids are being massacred? 🤔 #LeonnaHale

White reporter: Was Malcolm X preaching hate and violence? Denzel Washington: Is the sheep preaching hate and violence when he says I'm not going to let a wolf eat me anymore?

"When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing he is judged a criminal and treated like one." - James Baldwin

On this day in 1969, activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton, was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old. William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300. A THREAD

No human being is illegal. No one’s personhood is illegal. Stop calling undocumented people illegal.