The best of the best: Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (Professor Kelly Miller Smith: “King was no slain civil rights leader. He was a martyred prophet of God.”)

The importance and impotence of dreams

This post is an announcement. Many more details on the horizon. If we are not still learning from Dr. King, we are dunces.

AI generated moment that might have been

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The late Kelly Miller Smith was an associate dean at Vanderbilt Divinity School and a pastor in the Nashville, Tennessee, area. One of his extraordinary accomplishments was delivering the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale Divinity School. He titled his lectures and later published them in a book of the same title: Social Crisis Preaching.

borrowed photo of Professor Kelly Miller Smith

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In the midst of one challenging insight after another, Professor Smith said the press had tried to downplay Dr. King‘s significance, in the writeups about his assassination, by referring to him as a slain civil rights leader. Said Smith unforgettably:

King was no slain civil rights leader. He was a martyred prophet of God.

More soon.