Here are two links to two great posts on Martin Luther King -- the first over at Michael Westmoreland-White's Levellers, and the second over at my cuñada's (sister-in-law's) blog, Tia Meg. I commend them both to you. The first is written by a man who wrote his doctoral dissertation on King, and the second by a young woman who, as a Mexican immigrant to the U.S., knows relatively little about King. The contrast is instructive. After reading these posts, I'd like you to check out this post and pray for the guy what wrote it. He needs your prayers. Then pray for me, that I'd be half as faithful in my faithfulness as MLK was faithful even in his unfaithfulness.

I'm mulling over a series of posts on International Law from the Margins. I'm taking a class on International Law at Missouri Southern State University. It's an incredibly important, and incredibly fascinating field. Early on I've discovered my focus for the semester. There is a kind of post-colonial, neo-Marxist movement called Third World Approaches to International Law (or TWAIL) that I've discovered has a great deal of overlap with my interests in liberation theology. In fact, I've been independently reading the liberation theology of Miguel De La Torre, and the book of his I'm currently reading has just now converged simultaneously with my class readings on International Law and ecological justice. (For instance, transnational corporations outsourcing their pollution to third world countries are getting away with it because of the inherent limitations of our predominantly Western-shaped system of International Law.) I hope to be writing on all this soon, but it's going to take me a little while to get a grasp on this new (to me) subject, so I can best determine how to treat it here in a series.

Thanks for your patience, and any advice any of you might have would be more than welcome.

Peace.