Martin Luther King

Today, the day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr., we will reflect upon the past year of tumult and tragedy, and the legacy upon which that is built: racial oppression and discrimination. And many people will raise up and herald and praise and listen to the famous and canonical "I have a dream" speech. But

This Martin Luther King, Jr., Day should unsettle us more than usual. It's not because President Obama is celebrating his inauguration today. It's because, almost fifty years since the composition of King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, his greatest epistle to the Church, we risk more than ever before being the people he accuses of

I must admit that MLK is one of those critical figures in American history that I should know much more about, but haven't taken the time to do so. However, I think I can safely say that about each of us regarding the Reverend Doctor King. Here is a man for whom we have a