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Loosening the Bonds of Injustice

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slaverymonument2Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Isaiah 58

What is our responsibility to those who are oppressed, to  those  who are brutally mistreated, denied their legal rights, and treated  as less than  human? PBS aired an  American  Experience special May 16 on the Freedom Riders, members of CORE who in 1961 rode through  the deep south to protest the racial injustice that was being perpetrated against African Americans. This is a profoundly disturbing presentation of what happens when we as Christians lose sight of God's commands to us, and allow evil acts and  wickedness to  be upheld as the normal course of affairs.