Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Social Justice Christian

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Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Social Justice Christian

http://blog.sojo.net/2010/08/26/martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-social-justice-christian/


Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Social Justice Christian
by Jim Wallis 08-26-2010

This coming Saturday, August 28 will mark the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech.” Glenn Beck has chosen this day to deliver his own speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial.

On that same morning I will be speaking at the dedication ceremony of a work of public art that commemorates the words and legacy of King. It is not a protest. Rather, it is an opportunity to reflect on what this great American had to say and is still saying to our country today. Whenever we take the time to collectively consider what that dream was, we all benefit.

My picture has graced the Glenn Beck blackboard a number of times over the past year. I am quite sure that if the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would have been on Glenn Beck’s blackboard long before I would have ever been considered. That is because Martin Luther King Jr. was clearly a Social Justice Christian — the term and people that Beck constantly derides. If the Christians of King’s era had listened to Glenn Beck, they would have been forced to walk out on MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. If they were to heed his advice to turn in social justice pastors to the church authorities, they all would have had to turn in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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1. All Christians are called to be Social Justice Christians.

It's the one call over and over and over.

We witness the perversion of it
In guys like Beck or groups like
Opus dei - or sects like Mormons.

But Isaiah, Jeremiah, Christ are very specific about it.

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2. And Glenn Beck is a "Social Just Us" kind of guy

Give Beck a break, he probably doesn't realize that the spelling is different.