Empowering Voices Talks With The Rev. Dr. Martha Simmons, the Creator and Director of the African American Lectionary and author of the new book title, Doing the Deed: The Mechanics of 21st Century Preaching
Statewide hearings, leading to a national report sponsored by The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, Inc. (SDPC), are giving voice to those most impacted by the criminal “justice” system.
I kept going to church. I kept saying the words of the prayers. I still sang the songs. I'm a minister -- I have to. But I was a fraud. I stopped talking with God. What could I say to the One who was not delivering me? What praise did I have?
"The calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak, ...We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak." - MLK