{"id":318,"date":"2026-01-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=318"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:32:30","slug":"speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-705x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-768x1116.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-1057x1536.jpg 1057w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px-560x814.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-19-MessengerApril1968-MartinLutherKingJrCover-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appears on the cover of the April 25, 1968, issue of <\/em>Messenger, <em>the Church of the Brethren magazine. The issue was published after his assassination on April 4. The editors dedicated the inside front cover and the back cover to reflections on the meaning of King\u2019s life, work, and witness for civil rights and for peace.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cI have told the glad news of deliverance<br>in the great congregation;<\/strong><br>see, I have not restrained my lips,<br>as you know, O Lord.<br>I have not hidden your saving help within my heart;<br>I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;<br>I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness<br>from the great congregation.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; Psalm 40:9-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In many ways, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s life, work, and witness can be described by these verses from Psalm 40. On the <em>Messenger<\/em> cover he is shown speaking to \u201cthe great congregation\u201d of the people of the world. How did he speak without restraint of the glad news of deliverance, faithfulness, salvation, and steadfast love? With his model before us today, how can we speak without restraint to share glad news of deliverance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have told the glad news of deliverancein the great congregation;see, I have not restrained my lips,as you know, O Lord.I have not hidden your saving help within my heart;I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulnessfrom the great congregation.\u201d &#8211; Psalm 40:9-10 Activity In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}