How humor and enemy loving transformed a grand dragon of the KKK

When we hear people talk about the power of Christian nonviolence and peacemaking, it is almost always a story told by the one doing the loving rather then the enemy being loved. This testimony from a former KKK leader talking about NAACP leader Reverend Wade Watts does just that. Rather then spending a lot of time introducing this video, I'm going to let the story of Wade Watts and his encounters with the KKK speak for itself:

For more on the story of Reverend Watts you can read the Wikipedia article on him.

(via BoingBoing)

Tim Nafziger is a activist, writer, organizer and web developer. He lives in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago with his wife Charletta where he attends Living Water Community Church. He is the administrator for the Young Anabaptist Radicals blog and serves as Outreach Coordinator for Christian Peacemaker Teams. For more about his life, read his first blog post.

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