Sunday’s Interests: Two Southern Pastors — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Rev. Billy Graham

 

Sunday’s interests are all about God, Religion and Spirituality.  Today we focus on two Southern pastors: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Billy Graham

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• Early on, Dr. King and I spoke about his method of using non-violent demonstrations to bring an end to racial segregation. He urged me to keep doing what I was doing – preaching the Gospel to integrated audiences and supporting his goals by example – and not join him in the streets. “You stay in the stadiums, Billy,” he said, “because you will have far more impact on the white establishment there than you would if you marched in the streets. Besides that, you have a constituency that will listen to you, especially among the white people, who may not listen so much to me. But if a leader gets too far out in front of his people, they will lose sight of him and not follow him any longer.” I followed his advice. — Billy Graham

read

• In his own words – Billy Graham on Martin Luther King, Jr. (Billy Graham)
• Remembering King’s last sermon with renewed hope (Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
• Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, where should the black church go from here? (Hamil Harris, The Washington Post)
• How a Humble Evangelist Changed Christianity As We Know It (Michael S. Hamilton, Christianity Today)
• How Billy Graham Killed Communism with Kindness (David Aikman, Christianity Today)
• The Rituals and Traditions of Easter and Holy Week (Alan Taylor, The Atlantic)
• ‘I believe because it is absurd’: Christianity’s first meme (Sam Dresser, aeon)

listen

• • Martin Luther King Jr., “The Drum Major Instinct” FINAL Sermon (YouTube)

watch

• Billy Graham & Martin Luther King (YouTube)

• • Taking Down the Ropes of Segregation – Part 1 (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)

Look

• “Risk it all as if every kid in your ministry is the next Billy Graham or Martin Luther King, Jr.”  (everything.church, Instagram)
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