A Living Church editorial from fifty years ago this week advocates for a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King as a time for "national re-dedication to the truth which the prophetic hero proclaimed."
William Blake viewed himself first not as a poet or an artist, much less a political activist, but as a prophet, a seer who glimpsed the glory of God and was forever transformed.
It's hard to think of a job worse than that of performance artist — enacting with one's body and very life foundational truths of the universe. And yet...