The Beloved Community and Utopia: Hope in the Face of Struggle as Envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Paulo Freire

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drick Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Beloved Community ◽  
The Face ◽  
Martin Luther King

Toward Jerusalem: A journey of the eternal now (A Sermon)

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Richard Francis Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article is a theological-ethical Lenten sermon that attempts to discern the transcendent themes in the narrative of Luke 9-19 with an especial focus upon “setting the face toward Jerusalem” and the subsequent weeping over Jerusalem. The sermon moves from a passage from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying through a series of hermeneutical turns that rely upon insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Will Campbell, Augustine, and Paul Tillich with the hope of illuminating what setting of the face on Jerusalem might mean. Tillich’s “eternal now” theme elaborates Augustine’s insight that memory and time reduce the present as, to paraphrase the Saint, that all we have is a present: a present remembered, a present experienced, and a present anticipated. The Gospel is a timeless message applicable to every moment in time and history. The sermon seeks to connect with recent events in the United States and the world that focus upon challenges to the ideals of social justice and political tyranny.

The Heart of the Movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-88
Author(s):  
Elaine Allen Lechtreck
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
White People ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
The Face ◽  
Taxi Service ◽  
Martin Luther King

The chapter reveals the violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement, the courage of African American activists (Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers) and the small minority of southern white ministers who joined them. In Montgomery, Alabama, Robert Graetz provided taxi service for demonstrators. Andrew Turnipseed paid the salary of James Love, who signed the Mobile bus petition, when his parishioners would not. No southern white minister would participate in freedom rides, but John Morris organized a Freedom Ride after the violence subsided. The group was arrested. Joseph Ellwanger was harassed in Birmingham. Hundreds of black protestors were arrested and tortured. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Edwin King was arrested and tortured. The Klan and other white supremacist groups flourished. Black activists and some whites were murdered in Mississippi. As Edwin King commented, “Good white people could do nothing in the face of madness.”

Norway’s Democratic Challenge

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-62
Author(s):  
Michael Honey
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Third Way ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Civil Rights History ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article provides an overview of Norwegian labor history and social democracy, which challenges American capitalism and the labor movement to consider Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for a “third way,” a more humane system mixing highly regulated and taxed capitalism with a strong social system powered by strong unions and a truce between workers and capitalists. The Nordic model flies in the face of American avaricious capitalism and challenges us to consider how a better society might exist even within capitalism. The author, a specialist in southern labor and civil rights history and Martin Luther King studies, urges historians to explore Norwegian and Scandinavian labor history and social democracy to see what it can teach us.

scholarly journals Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Socioeconomic Disparity ◽  
Antidiscrimination Law ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Martin Luther King

In 1984, President Reagan signed a bill that created the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. The Commission was charged with the responsibility of issuing guidelines for states and localities to follow in preparing their observances of Martin Luther King's birthday. The Commission's task would not be easy. Although King's birthday had come to symbolize the massive social movement that grew out of efforts of African-Americans to end the long history of racial oppression in America, the first official observance of the holiday would take place in the face of at least two disturbing obstacles: first, a constant, if not increasing, socioeconomic disparity between the races, and second, a hostile administration devoted to changing the path of civil rights reforms that some believe responsible for most of the movement's progress.

Multiple Personality and Computational Models

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Boden
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
The Face ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Martin Luther King

Some readers may have seen the re-runs, on BBC-TV recently, of the ‘Face to Face’ interviews done by John Freeman in the 1960s. One of these was with the singer Adam Faith, then a startlingly beautiful young man with the grace to be amazed at being chosen to be sandwiched between Martin Luther King and (if I remember aright) J. K. Galbraith. The re-runs were accompanied, where possible, with a further interview with the same person. What I found almost as startling as his lost beauty was Faith's referring to himself-when-young in the third person. After watching the rerun interview, the now middle-aged man commented to Freeman, on several occasions, that ‘He said such-and-such’, ‘He told you so-and-so’, and the like.

Search for the Beloved Community: The Thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Duane Addison ◽  
Kenneth L. Smith ◽  
Ira G. Zepp
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Beloved Community ◽  
Martin Luther King
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