Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do you remember Martin Luther King, Jr? Last year I asked my elementary aged kids whether the cover of their MKL booklets depicted Martin Luther King, Jr., preaching. They wondered why. Apparently, they hadn’t learned about Martin Luther King, Jr., as a Reverend. An educational moment which inspired further conversation.
How do you remember, understand, process, celebrate, share the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., with friends, family, and colleagues? If you haven’t thought about it enough today and already have material to share, I’d encourage you to take a few minutes to
- watch I Have a Dream on YouTube
- read Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. (originally printed in the October 2002 issue of First Things). In this article Richard John Neuhaus shares much more than I’m prepared to share with my kids.* Below’s the concluding paragraph from Richard John Neuhaus’ Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marshall Frady and others are right: If everything was known then that is known now, Dr. King would early have been brought to public ruin, and there would almost certainly be no national holiday in his honor. But God writes straight with crooked lines, and he used his most unworthy servant Martin to create in our public life a luminous moment of moral truth about what Gunnar Myrdal rightly called “the America dilemma,” racial justice. It seems a long time ago now, but there is no decline in the frequency of my thanking God for his witness and for having been touched, however briefly, by his friendship, praying that he may rest in peace, and that his cause may yet be vindicated.
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