Disobeying unjust laws

January 15, 2012 • Category: News, Photos

An MLK Day reflection

In his 1957 Christmas sermon at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Martin Luther King Jr. preached on “Loving your enemies” and talked about meeting the violence and hatred of others with “soul force.” Directing his words at the opponents of civil rights, whom we are called by the Gospel to love but no less to oppose (“we should be happy that [Jesus] did not say ‘like your enemies’”), King said, “We cannot in all good [...]

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