Abundant Life Speech – Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2009

Posted on April 7, 2015 by PLT Staff

Speech given by Charles Marsh at the University of Virginia on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Charlottesville, Virginia. Marsh traces historically the struggle for a new world beginning with the civil rights movement and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the inauguration of Barack Obama and beyond. For a listing of all our Occasional Lectures, click here.

Excerpt: “Dr. King’s dream was not his dream; it was not the dream of the 60’s; Dr. King’s dream was the dream of God, a gift of the spirit, the beloved community of Christ, a foretaste of the Kingdom, the mission of the Church to heal the broken body of the world.”

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