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Contemplating Nonviolent Resistance - Prayer

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Dear God of Love and Justice, As I pause to reflect on the theme of Nonviolent Resistance in my life today, I can’t help but hear the echo of your words in Amos 5:24: “Let justice roll down like waters,...

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To Kill a Mockingbird: Justice, Mercy, Humility (Micah 6:8)

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Just Mercy: Justice Rolling Down Like Waters (Amos 5:24)

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12 Years a Slave: The Long Arc of Justice (Amos 5:24)

In 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup—a free Black man kidnapped into slavery—survives twelve years of horror. The injustice is so vast it seems unstoppable, a river of evil. Amos cried: "Let justice roll down like waters." But for Solomon, injustice was what rolled down.

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