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All Blog Posts With Tag: MLK
James H. Cone defends Martin Luther King Jr. from the fundamentalists (January 27, 2020)
Have you or someone you've known ever called Martin Luther King Jr. a heretic? Sadly, I've witnessed it happen often. Every time that I've publicly praised MLK as America's most outstanding theologian, someone inevitably replies "No! He's a heretic!" or "A heretic cannot be America's greatest theologian!" Fundamentalists are the […]
J. Gresham Machen’s racist 1913 letter and agenda (and a defense of Karl Barth) (September 5, 2018)
The revelation of J Gresham Machen's 1913 racist letter to his mother and agenda at Princeton Seminary has caused defenders of Machen to justify Machen by making personal attacks on Karl Barth. I'd like to share a brief response. The original source of J. Gresham Machen's racist comments and agenda […]
James Cone: Martin Luther King, Jr. is America’s Most Outstanding Theologian (January 18, 2015)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (1929—1968) birthday was January 15, 1929 and he would have been 86 years old, if he had lived until today. MLK was assassinated on Thursday, April 4, 1968 when he was 39 years old in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tomorrow is the only major federal holiday […]