than the injustices of society, not less. If a sinner like King could produce a miracle of public morality in Birmingham, what became of Moral Man and Immoral Society? What then became of Niebuhr’s theology? Worshippers at Ebenezer often saw through such muddles. When King seemed depressed and out of sorts, they came out of his sermons shaking their heads over his powerful rumblings, remarking that he was a “God-troubled” man, surely on the verge of shaking up the white man’s world.
