Strength to Love

I will be reading Martin Luther King, Jr’s sermon collection, Strength to Love, across four weeks in January 2022. Please join me here or in my newsletter to read along, or read vicariously through my notes. Each week I will pull out one particularly resonant idea for you to consider. 

Here are the schedule and links:

Related reading:

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"Pilgrimage to nonviolence"
"Pilgrimage to nonviolence"
"To guard ourselves from bitterness"
"To guard ourselves from bitterness"
"An inescapable network of mutuality”
"An inescapable network of mutuality”
"A third way"
"A third way"
Unfolding
Unfolding

Life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. - Amor Towles

King, #Charlottesville, and beloved community.
King, #Charlottesville, and beloved community.

By the weekend of August 12, King’s legacy was alive in Charlottesville. Our practical and spiritual preparation, rooted in King’s words and example, empowered us.

You and I can be more like Martin Luther King, Jr.
You and I can be more like Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity." TRIED. Just...wow. [Video]

Go on at a steady pace.
Go on at a steady pace.

The work of justice will not be easy; nor will it be futile. 

 
Justice, PhilosophyJennifer Phillips