Thread: Yesterday’s (March 28) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is the last item in the book: “Pilgrimage To Nonviolence.” Dr. King discusses his philosophical journey. Again, this is over 60 years old . . .
“More recently I have come to see the need for the method of /1
Thread: Today’s (March 27) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “Paul’s Letter To American Christians.” Dr. King imagines St. Paul writing one of his letters to America from Troas. I know I say a lot with these that it is over 60 years ago, but . . .
“The misuse /1
Thread: Today’s (March 26) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “The Answer To A Perplexing Question”, based on Matthew 17:19. For over a decade, I have used #ThoughtsPrayersActionsChange on posts at times regarding mass shootings as my way of saying thoughts and prayers /1
Thread: Today’s (March 25) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “Antidotes For Fear”. Dr. King uses 1 John 4:18.
This one brought tears at the end thinking of Mommie & how he ends the sermon is what I needed. The section I am posting fits so much of today in talking /1
Thread: Today’s (March 24) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is based on Jude 24 & Dr. King called it “Our God is Able.”
“In a real sense, Waterloo symbolizes the doom of every Napoleon and is the eternal reminder to a generation drunk with military power that in the long /1
Thread: Today’s (March 23) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “How Should A Christian View Communism?” I had read parts of what is in the sermon from other writings, but very interesting to get the full story. Dr. King uses Amos 5:24, which is a common theme in his work. /1
Thread: Today’s (March 22) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “Shattered Dreams” (as one who attended college in the 1980s, Johnny Hates Jazz is playing in my head). Dr. King uses Romans 15:24 & St. Paul’s desire to go to Spain.
“Some of us, of course, will die without having /1
Thread: Today’s (March 21) #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “The Death Of Evil Upon The Seashore” that Dr. King takes from Exodus 14:30. I admit after reading it & then some of the news this day, this first item screamed at me.
“The meaning of this story is not found /1
Thread: Yesterday’s (March 20) #LentKing2026 in “Strength To Love” comes from Luke 12:20 called called, “The Man Who Was A Fool”. Dr. King examines one of the parables I think about quite often. This passage is something I work to change in my thinking & language. /1
Thread: Today’s #LentKing2026 for “Strength To Love” comes from Luke 11:5-6 that Dr. King called, “A Knock At Midnight”. Again, this was pre-1963, but fits well with today.
“Midnight is the hour when men desperately seek to obey the eleventh commandment, 'Thou shall not get /1
Today’s #LentKing2026 from “Strength To Love” is “Loving Your Enemies” (Matthew 5:43-45). This is the first repeat from The Radical King & was revised in 1962 after Dr. King was in jail for about two weeks. I will give just the a few highlights this time. /1
Thread: Today’s sermon for #LentKing2026 is “Love In Action” based on Luke 23:34. Dr. King breaks down & applies this verse to life throughout history (works even today on St. Patrick’s Day 2026).
“The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of revenge. /1
Just this morning for my #LentKing2026 reflection, I did not include this line from Dr. King: "The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things." (On Being A Good Neighbor).
Rep. Dunn is not a "person" to him but a means to an end.
#Sigh1
Thread: Today’s #LentKing2026 is not about State Farm, though they have been my insurance company over 30 years. The title is “On Being A Good Neighbor” & Dr. King uses Luke 10:29. Even if not Christian or religious, my guess is people know of The Good Samaritan parable. /1
Thread: Today’s #LentKing2026 is “Transformed Nonconformist”. Dr. King’s sermon uses St. Paul’s Romans 12:2 (the book has it listed incorrectly). It is not about just being a contrarian, but being renewed, being constructive.
“Thomas Jefferson wrote, ‘I have sworn upon the altar of God /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is a shift to "Strength To Love" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). It is a collection he put together of sermons, which he was reluctant to do (thinking they should be heard, not read). They span from 1955-1963. The edition I am reading is /1
Thread: Today’s #LentKing2026 is the end of The Radical King (West, 2016). Dr. Cornel West concludes appropriately with Dr. King’s “Mountaintop” speech (April 3, 1968). I have picked fragments to share from it.
To get the story of what happened /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is the penultimate reading in The Radical King (West, 2016): The Drum Major Instinct. This sermon was given at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Feb. 4, 1968. He is working from St. James & St. John asking Jesus for the right & left seats in the kingdom. /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is Dr. King's speech given about 2 weeks in Memphis before his murder at the same location as the "Mountaintop" speech.
"But there is another great need, and that is to unite beyond class lines. The Negro 'haves' must join hand with the Negro /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is a great oddmatch as it was a speech given on March 10, 1968, just weeks before his murder. The speech "The Other America" was given 58 years ago today, and 57 years ago today, James Earl Ray confessed to killing Dr. King, and Ray was born /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is still from The Radical King & is a piece Dr. King did in honor of Norman Thomas. Thanks to Dr. Bob Stuckert's Civil Rights course at Berea College, I knew the name.
"The role of watchman on the tower has never been an easy calling. Who /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is one I hoped to read again in The Radical King. It is Dr. King's speech on Vietnam given one year to the day before his murder. Hard not to see events today in light of it. Actually, a number of things since 1967 fit too well. /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 is one that I have read parts of but not the whole chapter. It is Dr. King talking about "Black Power" & when Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) used the slogan during the Mississippi march with SCLC, CORE, & SNCC for James Meredith in 1966. Seems /1
Ties into my #LentKing2026 excerpt from yesterday that I posted today!
#WorkingToFix2026
Thread: Yesterday's #LentKing2026 from The Radical King: I neglected to post an excerpt. It has been quite some time since I read this speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", which was Dr. King's last Presidential address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 via The Radical King is Dr. King writing about Jawaharlal Nehru from 1965.
"The peculiar genius of Imperialism was found in its capacity to delude so much of the world into the belief that it was civilizing primitive cultures even though it was grossly /1
Thread: For today's #LentKing2026, this is about a reflection Dr. King had conversing with Premier Ben Bella (Algeria) about 5-6 months after Algeria gained independence in 1962. Again, from The Radical King (West, 2016).
"For Ben Bella, it was unmistakably clear that /1
Thread: Today's #LentKing2026 excerpt from The Radical King is based on a talks gave for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as part of the Massey Lecture Series in 1967.
"First of all, will nonviolence work, psychologically, after the summer of 1967? /1
Thread: It is a new month & it was a good oddmatch with the news of yesterday to start March 1st with my #LentKing2026 reading being my favorite of Dr. King's writings: Letter From Birmingham Jail. I read it at least twice a year, along with "A Call For Unity", which sparked /1
