Previous essays in this series have explored the matrix of an honor-shame culture in American Southern history, and how the American church found itself...
A Living Church editorial from fifty years ago this week advocates for a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King as a time for "national re-dedication to the truth which the prophetic hero proclaimed."
A spirit of celebration was the possession of thousands of people — almost exclusively black — who lined the street to cheer and to shout to us “God bless you!”
“Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
