COVID-19: Now I understand King’s truth of the ‘inescapable web of mutuality’

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I’m finally going to admit this out loud: I’ve never really understood Martin Luther King Jr.’s teaching on the “inescapable network of mutuality.” Given my appreciation for the source of this idea, I have given it the benefit of the doubt. I could even articulate a vague philosophy of interdependency in human relationships and in nature.

But I confess this concept has always rung hollow to me. I believed in helping those who were suffering and in fighting for justice, but this came from a conviction about right and wrong, not a sense that it was somehow my own liberation I was fighting for... —From Baptist News Global