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SATURDAY, December 5 (Clement of Alexandria)
Amos 5:18-27. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.
I am a native of the American South and I love the land and people from whence I come. I am also a white man who remembers separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites, separate schools, separate seating areas in theaters and on trains. As a child I did not question these arrangements, and as a young man in the 1960s I favored a gradualist approach to reform that might have perpetuated forever the evil of segregation.
Looking at the past, I wish I had shown greater wisdom and compassion, and looking at the present, I am not sure how much I have changed. Injustice and inequality persist, both in American culture and in my heart. But some things are better than they were. We have a long way to go, but we have come a long way. The memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama is inscribed with his favorite Bible verse: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream." The tears I weep standing there today are tears both of joy for what we have done and of grief for what we have not yet begun to do.
PRAY for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts (Province I, USA)
Ps 20, 21:1-7(8-14) * 110, 116, 117; Jude 17-25; Matthew 22:15-22
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ony of Mel White the pastor who left Jerry Fallwells church after trying be "cured" of his homosexuality. At that moment I senced Christs presence in his words. To accept all people in every way we can is not a politcal agenda but a commandment from the heart of Christ. Let's all condem the actions of the Ugandan government and the inaction of those in power that keep silent including Cantebury.
Stephen Miller