In this lecture to an undergraduate class on religion and social movements at the University of Virginia by scholar-pastor Nathan Walton, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. are narrated through the lens of the theological. 

Rev. Dr. Walton is  Co-Lead Pastor at East End Fellowship in Richmond, Virginia.  He most recently served as Executive Director of Abundant Life Ministries, a community development nonprofit in Charlottesville. Nathan holds a Master of Divinity degree from Duke Divinity School and both a B.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.

The recorded lecture will be available on our website.

The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research initiative, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.