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Martin Luther King Jr.

The labor rights radical behind the 1963 March on Washington

John Fea   |  August 31, 2022

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place 59 years ago this week (August 28, 1963). Shawn Gude ofJacobin interviews historian William P. Jones about A. Philip Randolph, the Black socialist who spoke at the 1963 event and...

Tim LaHaye had some choice words for Wheaton College when the evangelical school hosted a memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr.

John Fea   |  January 17, 2022

On April 7, 1968, Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian school in Wheaton, Illiinois, hosted a “community-wide memorial service” for Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of King’s assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. The final paragraph of this...

Song of the day

John Fea   |  January 17, 2022

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Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope”

John Fea   |  May 4, 2021

Barack Obama’s pastor is known for three sermons. In this episode, we put them in historical context. Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope” (our fourth episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative...

Teaching Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

John Fea   |  March 10, 2021

This is a revised and updated version of a post originally published on March 6, 2020: After a couple weeks focusing on “creation” in my Created Called for Community (CCC) course at Messiah University, we have shifted gears slightly to focus on the...

Martin Luther King Jr’s Christian nationalism

John Fea   |  February 6, 2021

This is a piece I wrote in 2011 when I was doing a column at Patheos: When we think of the defenders of a Christian America today, the Christian Right immediately comes to mind. We think of people like Glenn...

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