Responding to the Response to MLK

In 2013, on the fiftieth anniversary of MLK’s famous epistle from the Birmingham Jail, a coalition of Christians, called Christian Churches Together in the USA, published “A Response to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’”[1]

The “Response” covers nineteen pages in the PDF version, and shows a sincere desire to do the right thing. Recognizing racism as an ongoing problem, the CCT members

resolve to work together to expose, confront, and transform the devastating legacy o...