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Martin Luther King Jr. on Moral Arc and Providence - Black Church (Romans 8:28)

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"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. This is the substance of Romans 8:28 for those who have suffered: God is not absent from history. He is working—sometimes invisibly, often slowly—bending all things toward His good and just purposes." — Martin Luther King Jr. The Black Church reads Romans 8:28 through centuries of suffering and hope.

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Romans 8:28

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