Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

So if you are willing, take a moment and read his words, reflect on them and then act:

• Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Paul's Letter to American Christians
• Beyond Vietnam
• Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
• Three Evils in the World

 And if you are willing to go further, read these:

• Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin
• Thomas Merton and the civil rights struggle
• You can watch video reflections on these here.

And a couple of prayers:

We give thanks today for our brother Martin and for the ways you spoke through him to expose the poverty of our wealth, the insecurity of our war-making, and the contradictions of our racism. Give us grace to love you among the least today, O Lord, and to live the good news Martin preached in his life and in his death. Amen. (Common Prayer)

Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (Lesser Feasts and Fasts)