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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Note from Dr. Jim Denison.

I am grateful to my son Ryan Denison for writing the daily article this week while I'm on vacation.

Ryan is a graduate of Baylor University and Truitt Seminary and is completing his doctoral

dissertation in church history at B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. He serves as

senior fellow for theology with our ministry and writes often in my absence. I am certain you will

find his insights to be both biblical and practical. James Earl Ray, the escaped convict who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested 52 years ago today in London, England.

He flew to England after shooting King with the goal of reaching Rhodesia, then led by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government.

Ray would later confess to killing MLK before recanting

and saying he was the fall guy for a much larger conspiracy.

There are still a number of people who believe him,

despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary

and multiple investigations across the decades since.

The constant harassment by the FBI in King's final years and his public denouncement of the Vietnam War give many pause in

assuming the U.S. government did not play a role in the civil rights leader's death. I am bringing

all that up now to remind us that often the lens through which we see the world around us,

and the actions of others is determined as much by our personal experiences as by the larger reality of the situation.

As I've read the various accounts of personal experiences from members of the black community in the

wake of recent protests.

What stood out the most is how even a single incident of racial discrimination can have

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