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Martin Luther King Jr. on Creative Living
Martin Luther King Jr on Creative Living Author:Michael G. Long Over the past half-century much has been written about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Since the 1955 march in Montgomery, Alabama, King has been quoted, studied, and critiqued. Informed by the plethora of writings and drawing heavily on King's own words-especially from his column Advice for Creative Living, Michael Long shares with... more » us King's vision of the good life, his notion of creative living that can become our own. King had an unwavering belief that the one and only starting point of creative living is the God of love and justice as revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. He preached time and time again that only God can pull us out of despair and set us on the right road to creative living-a life reflective of the love and justice that are an integral part of the character of God. If our hearts are not right, King preached, it is because we have not opened them to the God who can make a way out of no way, transforming hate into love, injustice into justice, and destructiveness into creativity. Long brings together the main ideas of King's writings and the overall concepts of his life in a conversational and reader-friendly style. He gives careful attention to King studies and criticism about King's life in extensive footnotes that provide up-to-date scholarship for more serious students of King while allowing general readers to focus on the advice of King presented in the narrative-advice that will help us all to live creatively and that will ground us in even the most groundless times.« less