​January 19, 2020
10:00 am 

​Martin Luther King Sunday

April 4, 1968 is America’s Good Friday. 

“The closest thing we have to a modern Passion story is Martin Luther King.” So said Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Ethics, Union Seminary, at a talk a month ago in Marsh Chapel at Boston University.

An innocent man who preached non-violence and reconciliation. He had detractors, he had ardent supporters; he had haters and he had violent haters. He had critical things to say about cowardly clergy, white and black. He had a lot of critical things to say about the government and our laws. He was not invited to the funeral of assassinated President John Kennedy. But he was there in the White House at President Lyndon Johnson’s shoulder when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed.

On every Martin Luther King Day - this year on Monday, January 20th - we hear King’s great speech at the 1963 March on Washington with his ringing conclusion which proclaimed a vision when all God’s children will be “free at last, free at last, thank God, almighty we’re free at last.” It was to be his epitaph only 5 years later.

When we take stock this Sunday of where we are today, we must reckon with April 4, 1968.
 
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