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In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. criticized “white moderates,” identifying them as feeling empathy toward the civil rights movement, but not acting upon it. King’s “white moderate” compares to contemporary white Baptists who claim (or who embody) the title “moderate.” By putting the two in conversation, I argue that moderateness perpetuates a status quo that does not reflect the gospel.
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I hope this article allows us to question our use of the term "moderate", as well as interrogate how we are called to be a prophetic voice of love in this era.
Kate Hanch
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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This page is a summary of: Martin Luther King Jr.’s white moderates and moderate Baptists: Moderateness as betrayal of the gospel, Review & Expositor, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0034637319856336.
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