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Article: Living by the word: alternative freedom.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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Sunday, July 1 Galatians 5: 1-26
AMERICANS CELEBRATE freedom as a national fight and immortalize its twin sister liberty in the glorious statue that many of our ancestors saw as they came to this country. For me, the great-great grandson of enslaved Africans, freedom is a cherished gift long withheld from those in my familial lineage. It is a goal long sought by my ancestors, one attained only at the high cost of shed blood and spent lives. It is a goal that echoes in the rich baritone of Martin Luther King Jr., who pleaded with our nation to "let freedom ring" for those who have been denied this right. The quest for freedom also arises in Paul's epistles as a ...