We Will Still Love You

The Sermon on the Mount contains some of the most difficult ethical injunctions in all of scripture. Many of us do not know how to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s embrace of non-violent advocacy during the civil rights struggle is well-known. But when he speaks about why he pursues non-violent advocacy, the Sermon on the Mount shines through.

Writing from jail after his arrest as part of the Montgomery bus boycott, he wrote:

Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. We cannot in all…