SIGHT-SEEING: KING CONVINCED ME TO GIVE MY WHOLE LIFE TO THE CHURCH AND HIS DREAM
As the world prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, The Very Rev MALCOLM CLEMENS YOUNG, dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, writes of the impact Martin Luther King, Jr, had on him personally…
Clergy march in Washington against white supremacy
RNS People participate in the One Thousand Ministers March for Justice. PICTURE: RNS/Adelle M Banks From Protestant preachers to Jewish cantors to Catholic nuns, religious leaders of a range of faiths demonstrated in the nation’s capital for racial justice, criticising the silence of some within their own ranks on the subject of white supremacy […]
US President Obama designates historic civil rights sites including black churches
RNS In one of his last official acts, US President Obama has designated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other civil rights landmarks in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, as the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument. The designation protects the historic AG Gaston Motel in that city, where the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, and […]
ESSAY: AN ACCIDENT OF BIRTH…
As Christmas approaches, NILS VON KALM reflects on what being born into a life of privilege means when there remains such injustice in the world…
GREAT PRAYERS: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR’S PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s, inspiring prayer for the church…
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING – THE POWER OF PROMISE OVER REJECTION
MAL FLETCHER reflects on the life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr…