Our Persistent Reach for the American Dream

By Valerie Elverton Dixon
Jan 17, 2011
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We set aside a national holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because he welded an ethos of agape love onto the founding principles of the United States.

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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