the sermons of mlk

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Co-Workers With God

Most religions in the ancient Near East were rooted in the cyclical rhythms of nature. The gods of Egypt, for example, were linked to the sun,

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In January 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which had started two months earlier when Rosa Parks

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Americans have prided themselves for being “rugged individualists.” We are, after all, a country of immigrants, pioneers, and entrepreneurs. We

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A great many religious people think in terms of right and wrong. In their mental framework, the world consists of many things which are wrong,

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About a century ago, Christianity in America was embattled by the modernist–fundamentalist controversy. Influenced by new scientific discoveries

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Apart from Scripture, one finds wisdom in unexpected places—like The Godfather movies. In Part 2, Michael Corleone says, “Keep your friends close

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To inaugurate the Kingdom of God and the reconciliation of all things, Jesus assembled a team of misfits and malcontents. They were not wise or

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I believe James Madison did a great favor to the church when he wrote the First Amendment. Unlike European models, by separating church and state the

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For decades, sociologists have noted that a significant percentage of religious believers in the U.S. vote for one party while non-believers vote for

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Despite their overuse, advertisers will affirm that superlatives sell. Every business wants its product to be the “most prescribed,” “most

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Martin Luther King Jr. committed adultery. Rumors of King’s infidelity circulated before his death in 1968, but have since been confirmed by his

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David Bebbington is a British historian perhaps best known for his study of British evangelicalism. Although a loose, decentralize Christian

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One of the more astonishing parts of Martin Luther King Jr’s mission was his belief that racial segregation not only hurt black Americans but white

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In September 2001, I was invited to speak for two consecutive weeks to the young adults at a very large church. Between the invitation and the event,

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Having spent 15 years traveling and speaking to groups across the landscape of American religion, I’ve realized the Christian discipline of