Voices from the Dexter Pulpit: Sermons from the First Church Pastored by Martin Luther King, Jr. - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603060316 ISBN 13: 9781603060318

Publisher: NewSouth Books, 2007

Synopsis

From its founding in 1877, a series of remarkable preachers have filled the pulpit at the Dexter Avenue (King Memorial) Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Most famous among them, of course, was Martin Luther King, Jr., whose leadership of the civil rights movement began in a meeting in the basement of the Dexter Church at the outset of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Yet King’s was only one of the powerful voices which thundered the social gospel from what has become one of the most significant religious edifices in the world. In this book, editor Michael Thurman―the current pastor of the church-presents sermons from each of the ministers who have led the church since 1947. These pastors are: Vernon Johns, Martin Luther King, Jr., Herbert Eaton, G. Murray Branch, Robert Dickerson, Boykin Sanders, Richard Wills, and Michael Thurman. Their collective sermons reveal the rhetorical and literary talents which are a hallmark of great preaching, the profound faith which has sustained the African American tradition, and the power and persuasiveness which have come to be identified with the Dexter Church pulpit as a force for both spiritual and social change.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Thurman, the current pastor of the Dexter church, is a Montgomery native. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and has served as executive director of the Home Missions Board for the Southern Baptist Convention. He started the first African American church in Ames, Iowa. He was a contributor to A Mighty Long Journey, An African American Church Planter’s Guide, a book of sermons about racial reconciliation.

About this edition

• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603060316
• ISBN 13: 9781603060318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Thurman Michael