Demystifying Brotherhood: Interdependence, Integration, and the Dangerous Ethics of a Co-Opted Thinker
Andrew Stone Porter connects Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics of integration with his theological ethics of interdependence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
King and Graham and Kingdom Come
Anthony D. Baker observes the limits of eschatology in the twentieth century’s two greatest preachers.
The Crowning of King
The following is an older article of mine discussing the U.S.’s ‘crowning’ of King. It was originally published by Christian Ethics Today and was titled, Dethroning a King. It’s been re-published (and slightly re-vamped) in Third Way Allegiance. “A dangerous Negro, now a national hero. How shall we work with that?” Vincent Harding In a […]
Telling Evangelical Histories Otherwise: An Interview with Peter Heltzel
In this interview, Peter Heltzel talks about his book JESUS AND JUSTICE and what is at stake in telling histories from the voices of the exploited and oppressed.
The Revivification of Racial Reconciliation: Peter Heltzel’s Jesus and Justice, an Engagement with Evangelicals, Justice, and Race
A review of Peter Goodwin Heltzel’s JESUS AND JUSTICE, a book that traces the historical legacy of evangelicalism, particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr. and Carl F. H. Henry; describes the impact of this legacy on four contemporary evangelical organizations; and suggests new ways of understanding race and political life in America.
Back to the Alter: Revisiting Evangelicalism’s Problem with Race
A review of Paul Louis Metzger’s CONSUMING JESUS: BEYOND RACE AND CLASS DIVISIONS IN A CONSUMER CHURCH.
Economy, Equity, Ecology: ‘Green’ Discipleship
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. [True compassion] comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” That statement is from Martin Luther King’s “A Time to Break Silence,” a renowned address given at the Riverside Church, New York City, on April 4, 1967. I will use it […]