Tag: Martin Luther King
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Courageous Discipleship in an Idolatrous Nation
A sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1 on the Martin Luther King Day weekend, following the miscarriage of justice for Laquan McDonald.
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Opposed, Cautious, and Irrelevant
What King taught me about how white people respond to racial justice.
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“…the sacrificial spirit of the early church…”
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young…
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Birmingham Revolution
Fifty years ago Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama, scratching out a modern epistle in the margins of a newspaper. The Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a direct response to a letter published in the local newspaper written by a group of Birmingham clergy who were critical of the civil rights…
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The March On Washington
There’s a lot of good commentary on this 50th anniversary of the March on Washington – reflections on the forgotten context and all that remains undone – but the place to start is with Rev. King’s speech, the whole thing.
David W. Swanson 