A Conversation about MLK Jr.

We have been writing about this for years now asking the same question: What is the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.? This is a provocative and insightful conversation about who MLK really was. Just like most of American history, the left has done a wonderful job reshaping history and edifying the worship of man. Christians need to rethink how they view MLK in our homes and churches. We need to start having honest and difficult conversations about the morality of this man, the philosophy of this man, and the theology of this man. Should faith-based communities hold MLK up as a great man of history?

In this conversation, Vince Everett Ellison makes incendiary points that, if true, cast an enormous dark shadow on MLK. We would be remiss if we didn’t also consider that MLK was first, and foremost, a pastor. These charges by Ellison would disqualify MLK from that office. As Christians, we do not worship humans and recognize the fallibility of all mankind, that being said, fallibility and evil can easily be conflated. Ellison is advocating that MLK leaned more toward the evil end of the sin spectrum and should not hold a place of adulation in the minds and hearts of Christians. That is a hard reality to acknowledge and does no favor to the American church to avoid such topics.

For Those Who Inform Public Opinion
Almighty God, your truth endures from age to age: Direct
in our time, we pray, those who speak where many listen and
write what many read; that they may speak your truth to make
the heart of this people wise, its mind discerning, and its will
righteous; to the honor of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.