MLK Day, January 18, 2021. How much do you know about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr? Named after his father Martin Luther King, his first and middle names also recall a significant person from the early 16th century – in the Western world at least. But that’s for another chat. Some refer to MLK as …
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Not My Holiday
I admit that may have been my first thought, when: Six months after moving to Ethiopia, my wife and I found ourselves with a day off from language study for Timket (Amharic: ጥምቀት), the Orthodox Church’s celebration of the occasion centuries earlier when Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan. During a three-week visit in …
