I’m a guest-posting fool.
My good friend and author Sam Mahlstadt asked me to guest post on his blog about Lent. Check out “A Bright Sadness” over at http://t.co/aPm9aTgb” While you’re there, check out Sam’s book; “A Creative Theology.”
In spite of the noble affirmations of Christianity, the church has often lagged in its concern for social justice and too often has been content to mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. It has often been so absorbed in a future good ‘over yonder’ that it forgets the present evils ‘down here.’ Yet the church is challenged to make the gospel of Jesus Christ relevant within the social situation. We must come to see that the Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one side, it seeks to change the souls of men and thereby unite them with God; on the other, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and yet is not concerned with the economic and social conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is the kind the Marxist describes as ‘an opiate of the people.
— - MLK Jr., August 9th 1953
From the tenth chapter of “Strength to Love”, a book of Dr. King’s sermons. (HT)
From the tenth chapter of “Strength to Love”, a book of Dr. King’s sermons. (HT)
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.
— Proverbs 31:8-9
