Go Placidly: (Still) In Search Of the Beloved Community

By Abby Zimet at Commondreams.org

It’s tough, in this bleak, bloody, foreboding time, to hold onto and keep faith with Martin Luther King’s lofty vision of equality forged through non-violence. Still, we’re trying. For succor there is the memory of the blessed John Lewis, honored in a new biography, for whom “the fire never dimmed”; the words of Kinghimself, who argued, “Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars,” and the…