“King was above all a preacher for whom “the sermon was never the end, but the announcement of the beginning” of a fight against poverty, racism, militarism. “If he’d just preached about justice, no one would have bothered with him,” he said. “We must attend to the gospel he preached…He was not preaching a health and wealth gospel – he was preaching a gospel of radical hospitality” focused, like those before him, on “lifting up the poor.” ” – The Epinhood (TEH)

“King was above all a preacher for whom “the sermon was never the end, but the announcement of the beginning” of a fight against poverty, racism, militarism. “If he’d just preached about justice, no one would have bothered with him,” he said. “We must attend to the gospel he preached…He was not preaching a health and wealth gospel – he was preaching a gospel of radical hospitality” focused, like those before him, on “lifting up the poor.” ”

~ Common Dreams blogpost quote of Rev William J. Barber

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Charley Naney

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