Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today we celebrate MLK Day, in recognition of the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to end racial segregation and other forms of racial discrimination through nonviolent means.  On the day of his actual birthday, I posted on my blog an excerpt from King's 1956 imaginary letter from St. Paul to American Christians, in which St. Paul urges us to keep our "moral advances abreast" with our scientific advances.  It is a letter worth reading as we all struggle with living in the world without being conformed to the world.

(I also posted today an excerpt from another King sermon, titled Garden of Gethsemene.)