The Empty Pews on MLK Boulevard
For twelve years, Grace Community Church in Durham, North Carolina, held an annual "Justice Sunday" every January. They sang spirituals, read from the prophets, and...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
For twelve years, Grace Community Church in Durham, North Carolina, held an annual "Justice Sunday" every January. They sang spirituals, read from the prophets, and projected photos of civil rights marches on their screens. The congregation left feeling inspired. Then they drove past the same condemned apartment complex on MLK Boulevard they had driven past all year — the one where forty families lived without consistent heat.…
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