Stories tagged with: martin luther king jr. day

• Breaking down walls, Detroit Baptists honor MLK

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (3 months ago)

  

  Photo from Roland Caldwell

  DETROIT (BP) -- Not far from Eight Mile Road, a historic racial dividing line in Detroit, more than 100 diverse Southern Baptist pastors, state leaders and laypersons worshipped together on Martin Luther King Jr. day.

  The 7 p.m. service marked a milestone for 78-year-old African American pastor Robert Coverson, the event's preacher, who marched in Detroit with King during the civil rights movement. Many suburban residents are afraid to cross Eight Mile Road and venture into the deep inner city during the day, Coverson said, let alone after dark.

  "I saw last night God touching the hearts of people and I saw walls falling," Coverson told Baptist Press the next morning. "I saw hearts being tenderized for the idea of we are our brother's keeper. I saw a new love relationship starting. It was awesome." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Dr. King's mountaintop

  by J.D. Greear, posted Friday, January 18, 2019 (3 months ago)

  Just as Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a day of racial harmony, J.D. Greear calls Christians to pray for the courage to speak and live a similar "counter-cultural, racially diverse, bold and unified faith." Read More

• Floyd voices call for racial unity at Ark. capitol

  by Tim Yarbrough/Arkansas Baptist News, posted Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of the Arkansas Baptist News

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, who also serves as president of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, issued "A Call to Racial Unity" Jan. 15 at the inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Exclusive on the steps of the Arkansas capitol.

  Floyd, the event's keynote speaker, told pastors and other leaders that "racism is Satan's tool" for dividing the church.

  "Pastors and churches must be the prophetic voice of not just doom and gloom, but the voice for hope and future," Floyd, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, noted. Read More

• Remembering MLK: BP's Q&A with key Southern Baptists

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, January 12, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  National Park Service photo

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pastor James Dixon calls it "otherness," loving others enough to die for their benefit. That's what he credits to the late Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 50 years after the civil rights leader's death.

  "He allowed his life to enter into the lives of others and not leave them the way he found them," Dixon told Baptist Press in advance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 15. "If we're going to keep his memory going, we've got to have that same type of otherness. And that otherness comes because we love people, and that love flows from God through us to the other." Read More