A Day to Remember, With Much to Be Done

Many of my friends are pausing to reflect today on where we are, where we've been, and where we must go as a Church, a People, and a Nation. Some of my friends are simply enjoying a day off. There are many who are choosing to make this a day of service.

These are moving times in which we live. Tomorrow we'll have a new president, a man who does not "look" like me or many of us, but a man who does indeed "look" like many of us. He is our president, and so I encourage us to pray mightily and boldly for him, the new First Lady, and the new First Children.

Here again are snippets of that marvelous and moving speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King. May it remind us of what this day is all about. May it stir us once more to eradicating racism in all of its forms and in all of its places and spaces.