From the United Methodist Women National Office website:
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
What Are We Willing to Sacrifice for Justice? by Janis Rosheuvel and the Rev. Dionne P. Boissière
The lessons of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work are countless. This King Day, the most compelling lesson for us might be of how he and thousands of organizers and marchers sacrificed and what this means for us as people of faith in a broken world.
The recent historical drama Selma chronicles King and his community’s efforts to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to help win the introduction of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The film show the starkness of what King and his contemporaries sacrificed: safety, family harmony, economic security, certainty that they would win, and in some cases their lives. Read the rest of this article at unitedmethodistwomen.org