 | Martin Luther King: A 40 años de su asesinato El 4 de abril de 1968 King fue asesinado en Memphis (Tennessee). Su muerte provocó graves disturbios en más de 100 ciudades de ese país e hizo que se convirtiera en un mártir de la lucha por los derechos cívicos y la igualdad racial. Martin Luther King nació el 15 de enero de 1929 en Atlanta (Georgia). Hijo del Reverendo del mismo nombre, llegó al mundo en una habitación de la casa en la Avenida Auburn. Durante los primeros 12 años de su vida vivió en una casa victoriana de dos pisos. Fue ordenado ministro baptista, como su padre, a los 17. En 1951 se Graduó en el Crozer Theological Seminary, y realizó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Boston. Allí entró en contacto con las ideas del pacifista y nacionalista hindú Gandhi, las cuales se convirtieron en el centro de su propia filosofía de vida y lucha política. La prioridad del movimiento de King fue la de no responder a la violencia con más violencia. Esta lógica fue entendida como estrategia principal de su resistencia. Protestar contra la discriminación En 1955 formó parte de un boicot contra una compañía de transportes públicos en Montgomery, por la injusticia de arrestar una mujer negra que se había negado a dejar su asiento libre para un pasajero blanco. Martin Luther King dijo: "No tenemos otra opción que la protesta. Han sido muchos los años de notable paciencia, hasta el punto de que, en ocasiones, hemos dado a nuestros hermanos blancos la impresión de que nos gustaba el modo en que nos trataban. Pero esta noche estamos aquí para liberarnos de esa paciencia que nos ha hecho pacientes con algo tan importante como la libertad y la justicia". La protesta duró 381 días y Luther King fue arrestado y encarcelado, su vivienda fue destrozada y recibió muchas amenazas de muerte. En 1956 terminaron las protestas al ordenar el Tribunal Supremo prohibir la segregación en el transporte público de la ciudad. Tras éste éxito, Luther King fundó la Conferencia de Líderes Cristianos del Sur (SCLC) junto a los clérigos negros de todo el Sur de la Nación, liderando el movimiento de los derechos civiles de su país. En 1963 encabezó en Alabama una campaña a favor de los derechos civiles para lograr el censo de los votantes negros a los que se les había prohibido el ejercicio de su derecho al voto. Durante su misión de lucha fue arrestado varias veces. "Yo tengo un sueño" El 28 de agosto de 1963 Martin Luther King brindó su discurso "Yo tengo un sueño" en los escalones del monumento a Lincoln en Washington. Allí expresó: "Debemos enfrentar el hecho trágico de que el negro todavía no es libre. Cien años después, la vida del negro es todavía minada por los grilletes de la discriminación". "Cien años después, el negro vive en una solitaria isla de pobreza en medio de un vasto océano de prosperidad material. Cien años después el negro todavía languidece en los rincones de la sociedad estadounidense y se encuentra a sí mismo exiliado en su propia tierra", dijo entonces. 200 mil personas que habían marchado junto a él, le oyeron decir:: "Sueño con el día en que esta nación se levante para vivir de acuerdo con su creencia en la verdad evidente de que todos los hombres son creados iguales". En 1964 le otorgaron el Premio Nóbel de la Paz. El 4 de abril de 1968 King fue asesinado en Memphis (Tennessee). Sus ideas siguen vigentes, porque su sueño, aún no es una realidad completa. Según el Centro de Información sobre la Pena de Muerte de Washington, desde 1976 sólo 12 hombres blancos han sido ejecutados en Estados Unidos, mientras han corrido con la misma suerte 180 negros. El Centro afirma que uno de cada diez negros de 25 a 29 años (un 9,7 por ciento) se encuentra en la cárcel, contra el 2,9 por ciento de los latinos y 1,1 por ciento de los blancos de la misma edad. También la pobreza afecta mucho más a los negros que a los blancos: 22,7 por ciento de los primeros vive por debajo de la línea de pobreza, contra 11,7 por ciento entre los blancos. |
 | Who is Dr. Del Tackett? Here is a brief introduction to Dr. Del Tackett. Dr. Del Tackett is president of the Focus on the Family Institute and Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family. He is also the chief spokesperson for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project—a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ. An adjunct professor at New Geneva Theological Seminary and Summit Ministries, Dr. Tackett served more than 20 years in the United States Air Force. During the George H. W. Bush administration, he served at the White House, where he was appointed by President Bush as the director of technical planning for the National Security Council. Dr. Tackett later served in various senior analyst and manager capacities at Kaman Sciences Corporation and ITT Industries. As a professor, Dr. Tackett has taught more than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses at three different institutions, over a 12 year period. He is also an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Dr. Tackett holds three earned degrees (D.M., Colorado Technical University; M.S., Auburn University; B.S., Kansas State University). A sought after conference speaker, Dr. Tackett addresses topics such as American Christian heritage, Christian worldview, technical subjects and management. Del and his wife Melissa have been married since 1972. They have four grown children. Visit www.thetruthproject.org for more information. |
 | MLK, King King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents were college-educated, and King's father had succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The family lived on Auburn Avenue, otherwise known as "Sweet Auburn," the bustling "black Wall Street," home to some of the country's largest and most prosperous black businesses and black churches in the years before the civil rights movement. Young Martin received a solid education and grew up in a loving extended family. This secure upbringing, however, did not prevent King from experiencing the prejudices then common in the South. He never forgot the time, at about age six, when one of his white playmates announced that his parents would no longer allow him to play with King, because the children were now attending segregated schools. Dearest to King in these early years was his maternal grandmother, whose death in 1941 left him shaken and unstable. Upset because he had learned of her fatal heart attack while attending a parade without his parents' permission, the 12-year-old Martin attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window. In 1944, at age 15, King entered Morehouse College in Atlanta under a special wartime program intended to boost enrollment by admitting promising high-school students like King. Before beginning college, however, King spent the summer on a tobacco farm in Connecticut; it was his first extended stay away from home and his first substantial experience of race relations outside the segregated South. He was shocked by how peacefully the races mixed in the North. "Negroes and whites go [to] the same church," he noted in a letter to his parents. "I never [thought] that a person of my race could eat anywhere." This summer experience in the North only deepened young Martin's growing hatred of racial segregation. At Morehouse, King favoured studies in medicine and law, but these were eclipsed in his senior year by a decision to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King's mentor at Morehouse was the college president, Benjamin Mays, a social gospel activist whose rich oratory and progressive ideas had left an indelible imprint on King, Sr. Committed to fighting racial inequality, Mays accused the black community of complacency in the face of oppression, and he prodded the black church into social action by criticizing its emphasis on the hereafter instead of the here and now; it was a call to service that was not lost on the teenage Martin. King graduated from Morehouse in 1948. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he became acquainted with Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians and earned a bachelor of divinity degree in 1951. Renowned for his oratorical skills, King was elected president of Crozer's student body, which was composed almost exclusively of white students. As a professor at Crozer wrote in a letter of recommendation for King, "The fact that with our student body largely Southern in constitution a colored man should be elected to and be popular [in] such a position is in itself no mean recommendation." From Crozer, King went to Boston University, where, in seeking a firm foundation for his own theological and ethical inclinations, he studied man's relationship to God and received a doctorate (1955) for a dissertation titled "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman." |
 | The Heresy of Cornelius Van Til Cornelius Van Til was not a Christian. Van Til clearly denied the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. His devoted students have gone on to teach his heretical views, as well as even deny the doctrine of Justification By Faith Alone (a great many of the Auburn Ave. Theologians are Vantilians). Cornelius Van Til and Greg Bahnsen also publicly defended Norman Shepherd's heretical views of "Justification By Faith And Works". Shepherd was dismissed for teaching the Catholic doctrine of Justification at Westminster Seminary, Pennsylvania. In this small excerpt from a lecture by Dr. John W. Robbins, trinityfoundation.org, Robbins examines and refutes Cornelius Van Til's heresy. |
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