• Christianity

    Are You The Enemy?

    In Jon Tyson’s book, Beautiful Resistance-The Joy of Conviction In a Culture of Compromise, he recounts the fascinating story of how Martin Luther King dealt with a man who attacked him while giving a speech in Birmingham, Alabama. The man’s name was Roy James, a 24 year old New Yorker and member of the American Nazi Party. In the middle of the speech, James rushed the stage and began pummeling King with non-stop punches. King’s aides and supporters started to rush toward the stage to pull the man off of him, but King raised his hands and told them to stop. King then lowered his arms as he locked eyes…