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Happy #MartinLutherKingDay 
everyone. I jumped the gun last week, but I'm pretending like I didn't. #MLK remains misunderstood. A big part of this has to do with the decline in biblical literacy.
everyone. I jumped the gun last week, but I'm pretending like I didn't. #MLK remains misunderstood. A big part of this has to do with the decline in biblical literacy.
#MLK invoked the Bible constantly in his writing and speeches, but the depth of tradition he's using often goes unnoticed, and this is a terrible shame. https://old.lawliberty.org/2017/01/16/the-vanished-world-of-martin-luther-king/
invoked the Bible constantly in his writing and speeches, but the depth of tradition he's using often goes unnoticed, and this is a terrible shame. https://old.lawliberty.org/2017/01/16/the-vanished-world-of-martin-luther-king/
As incredible a man #MLK was, he was still a man. Raising him up too high can lead to future disappointment when he proves to have grievous sins in his past, as David Garrow revealed in 2019. I try to grasp with these in my chapter of Race and Covenant: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Covenant-Recovering-Religious-Reconciliation/dp/1880595222
was, he was still a man. Raising him up too high can lead to future disappointment when he proves to have grievous sins in his past, as David Garrow revealed in 2019. I try to grasp with these in my chapter of Race and Covenant: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Covenant-Recovering-Religious-Reconciliation/dp/1880595222
#MLK should be viewed as a civil rights leader but also as a preacher of the Gospel who turned the mid-20th Century American religious revival into an examination of conscience and the foundation for the Beloved Community, as I argue you here: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15946.html
should be viewed as a civil rights leader but also as a preacher of the Gospel who turned the mid-20th Century American religious revival into an examination of conscience and the foundation for the Beloved Community, as I argue you here: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15946.html
For all his sins, #MLK was a martyr for his Gospel faith, especially in his condemnation of white supremacy and breaking ground for racial reconciliation. In a way, he has become so familiar that we do not realize how unpopular he originally was in many parts of the country.
was a martyr for his Gospel faith, especially in his condemnation of white supremacy and breaking ground for racial reconciliation. In a way, he has become so familiar that we do not realize how unpopular he originally was in many parts of the country.
And his demand for a public role of Christianity often earned demands from white clergy for higher walls of separation of church and state. The Senate debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reveals as much.
Something to remember the next time one hears about the need to get religion out of politics.
