J. Ron Byler is the executive director of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will
In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” That comment resurfaced after riots by African-Americans in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore in the past two years. Deaths of young African-American men at the hands of police officers precipitated the riots.
