A Gift of Love

By Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Book cover of A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Book description

The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King
 
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail…

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This book is a great guide to life in hard times. What struck me about it is that there is all sorts of wisdom in here that is less familiar to us than the most famous of Dr. King’s speeches. Here, you can see the old seeds of modern-day culture wars and some excellent and brave recommendations on how to deal with them.

The book could have been written yesterday, always a great test of enduring insight.

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