Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts driving through the South and looking at the many churches, “Over and over I have found myself asking: ‘What kind of people worship here? Who is their God?’” Perhaps now is the time to ask this of ourselves; as we board up our churches that we haven’t been in for weeks, as we worry about the loss or destruction of our churches’ property in the midst of these riots, let us ask ourselves, “Who are we who worship in these places? Who is the God we worship, and what does that God ask of us?”
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