Reminders of renewal

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(Children’s Defense Fund) – As Christians celebrated Easter, in the midst of this holy season for so many faith traditions, I returned again to the Easter Sunday service Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached in April 1957 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, titled “Questions that Easter Answers.” King said one of these questions was, “Is the universe on the side of the forces of justice and goodness?” Related Stories He wrote, “Sometimes it looks dark and sometimes people come to feel that the universe is on the other side, that the universe seems to say ‘Amen’ to the forces of injustice … Every now and then I feel like asking God, ‘Why is it that over so many centuries the forces of injustice have triumphed over the Negro, and he has been forced to live under oppression and slavery and exploitation? Why is it, God? Why is it simply because some of your children ask to be treated as first-class human beings they are trampled over, their homes are bombed, their children are pushed from their classrooms, and sometimes little children are thrown in the deep waters of Mississippi?’ … I begin to despair sometimes, it seems...

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