By the Rev. Dawn Cooley
Today, I walked through the parsonage that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family lived in when he was the minister of Dexter Baptist Church here in Montgomery, AL. The tour guide knew her stuff, and at the end of the tour through the house (which included the table at which the SCLC was formed), we got to the kitchen. She kept the lights off, and told us the story of MLK’s kitchen table epiphany. He had been struggling, and gotten home late. Everyone was asleep. The phone rang and it was someone telling him his house was going to be bombed. He definitely couldn’t sleep after that (who could?) so he went and sat at the kitchen table. And he prayed. And in his prayers, he heard a voice, and it comforted him, and took away all his fears. He knew he was on the right path. More...
Today, I walked through the parsonage that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family lived in when he was the minister of Dexter Baptist Church here in Montgomery, AL. The tour guide knew her stuff, and at the end of the tour through the house (which included the table at which the SCLC was formed), we got to the kitchen. She kept the lights off, and told us the story of MLK’s kitchen table epiphany. He had been struggling, and gotten home late. Everyone was asleep. The phone rang and it was someone telling him his house was going to be bombed. He definitely couldn’t sleep after that (who could?) so he went and sat at the kitchen table. And he prayed. And in his prayers, he heard a voice, and it comforted him, and took away all his fears. He knew he was on the right path. More...
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