[Dialogue] For MLK Day

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This is from a colleague  on  my D.Min. list. Enjoy! 
Jann McGuire  
For Martin Luther King Day –  here is a teaching by Howard Thurman.  You 
can see his influence on MLK  Jr. 
_http://howardthurmanfilm.com/images/01_HT.mp3_ 
(http://howardthurmanfilm.com/images/01_HT.mp3)  
In 1936  Howard Thurman led a "Negro Delegation of Friendship" to visit 
Gandhi in India.  When Thurman asked Gandhi what message he should take back to 
America, Gandhi  said he regretted not having made nonviolence more visible 
worldwide and  suggested some American black man would succeed where he had 
failed. Gandhi's  wish would come true when Howard Thurman subsequently 
taught a young man at  Crozier Theological Seminary. That young man was Martin 
Luther, King Jr. and he  was transformed from learning about Gandhi. 
“Prior to  reading Gandhi, I had about concluded that the ethics of Jesus 
were only  effective in individual relationship. The "turn the other cheek" 
philosophy and  the "love your enemies" philosophy were only valid, I felt, 
when individuals  were in conflict with other individuals; when racial groups 
and nations were in  conflict a more realistic approach seemed necessary. 
But after reading Gandhi, I  saw how utterly mistaken I was. Gandhi was 
probably the first person in history  to lift the love ethic of Jesus above mere 
interaction between individuals to a  powerful and effective social force on 
a large scale.” My Pilgrimage to  Non-Violence” The Papers of Martin 
Luther King, Jr. 
Susan 
Susan  Coppage Evans, D.Min, MA
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