[Worship] Fwd: MLK's "Cosmic Companion"
Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant
fuusm.office at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 09:05:48 CST 2025
May I suggest that we (i.e., someone who isn't me) invite Dr. David Torbett
to provide a reflection? --dawn
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From: David Torbett from David T, Religion prof at MC <
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Date: Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Subject: MLK's "Cosmic Companion"
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"I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving
purpose..."
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MLK's "Cosmic Companion"
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This Monday, January 20, 2025, is Inauguration Day, but it is also the
third Monday of the month. On that day, Americans celebrate the birthday of
Martin Luther King, Jr.—in speeches, ceremonies, and “days of service.”
This Sunday, January 19, Dr. King will also be remembered in churches—in
prayer, in preaching, and in song.
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Some people question why Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a US federal holiday,
should be celebrated in Christian churches. I have found in conversations
over the years that the people who ask this question seem to share a
certain assumption.
It’s an assumption that is sometimes made by Christians who don’t really
admire Martin Luther King (and there are still a few of those around). More
often, though, it’s an assumption made by people who do admire King, but
don’t admire Christianity, or religion in general, and who would rather the
leader they admire not have much to do with those things either.
It’s the assumption that Martin Luther King, Jr. was not really a religious
figure, that he was primarily a civil rights leader and social justice
advocate who just coincidentally, by accident of his background and
upbringing, happened to be a Baptist minister—because his father was. It’s
the assumption that King was only superficially, “nominally,” a
Christian—that he may have used some Christian language in his speeches,
but Christianity was not very consequential for who he was and what he did
as a civil rights leader.
One could argue that this is the correct assessment of Martin Luther
King—if one ignored everything he wrote or said.
If you dig a little deeper into his life and his words, both his many
published writings and also his personal conversations, recorded in memoirs
and interviews with the people who knew him, you come across a person
who—had his share of imperfections. It does no justice to Martin Luther
King to say he never sinned. But he was also a person of faith, a person of
a particularly Christian faith.
What I go back to the most is an essay he wrote, “Pilgrimage to
Nonviolence,” a chapter in his 1958 book, *Stride Toward Freedom*. He wrote
a very similar essay with the same title for *Christian Century* magazine
in 1960 as part of a series of articles by significant thinkers of the day,
called “How My Mind Has Changed.”
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The essay is King’s intellectual and spiritual autobiography, the ideas
that influenced him—from his childhood in Atlanta, through his
undergraduate days at Morehouse College, then as a divinity student at
Crozer Theological Seminary, then as a PhD student at Boston University,
and then as a minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leader of the
famous bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
King was nurtured in the conservative Baptist theology of his father’s
church, then later schooled in the liberal Protestant tradition. He was
inspired by the Social Gospel writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, who
emphasized God’s concern for people’s social and economic well-being as
well as their spiritual well-being. King was challenged by the “Christian
realism” of Reinhold Niebuhr, who emphasized human sinfulness and the role
that power plays in establishing justice. King was also receptive to truth
from sources outside of Christianity. Most famously, he was drawn to the
nonviolent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Because of his openness to truth from all sources, it would be a mistake to
paint Martin Luther King as a Christian fundamentalist, who found truth
only in a narrow, literal interpretation of the Bible. But it would also be
a mistake to deny he was a Christian. Even in adopting Gandhi’s practice of
*satyāgraha*, King was just trying to put Jesus’s teachings in the Sermon
on the Mount into action.
Throughout his journey, King sought to apply his Christian faith to the
racial and economic injustice that he had witnessed since he was a child.
The reason to celebrate Martin Luther King in Christian churches is because
he, with all his human imperfections, shows other Christians a way to
follow Jesus.
There are two ways of approaching Martin Luther King as a model of faith.
One way is to say if we really believe in Jesus, if we really are called to
follow him, we should be doing all the things. We should be like Martin
Luther King—establishing justice and eliminating war, poverty, and
oppression. Certainly, this is true, but a list of things we *should be*
doing—even if it is a good list—by itself is not very empowering. In fact,
it’s overwhelming.
There is another way understanding the model of faith that Dr. King sets
forth. That is to say, *because* we believe in Jesus, we *can* do all the
things. Because we trust in the God revealed in Jesus—the God who overcomes
evil with good, the God who overcomes hate with love—we know that love and
goodness cannot fail. We can, with God’s help, build the beloved community
of equality and justice that Dr. King spoke of.
In another context, at a later time, King famously said (paraphrasing
another preacher), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends
toward justice.” One might question, and people do indeed question, whether
this is really the case. Clearly the world is full of injustice. Clearly,
many injustices have never been corrected. To the point, King made this
statement in a sermon he preached at the National Cathedral in Washington
DC on the last day of March, 1968, just days before he himself was unjustly
murdered. How can we be certain that the long arc of the universe will bend
toward the right place?
Ultimately, we cannot be certain. But in making this affirmation, King was
not just expressing his own optimism. He was affirming the faith that he
had already affirmed ten years earlier in “Pilgrimage Toward Nonviolence,”
his “conviction that the universe is on the side of justice.”
In the midst of their nonviolent resistance to evil, King and others were
strengthened by a “cosmic companionship.” King writes, “Whether we call it
an unconscious process, an impersonal Brahman, or a Personal Being of
matchless power and infinite love, there is a creative force in this
universe that works to bring the disconnected aspects of reality into a
harmonious whole.”
It was King’s faith in his “cosmic companion” that sustained him through
his most difficult struggles, as he wrote:
*Perhaps the suffering, frustration and agonizing moments which I have had
to undergo occasionally as a result of my involvement in a difficult
struggle have drawn me closer to God. Whatever the cause, God has been
profoundly real to me in recent months. In the midst of outer dangers, I
have felt an inner calm and known resources of strength that only God could
give. In many instances I have felt the power of God transforming the
fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope. I am convinced that the
universe is under the control of a loving purpose and that in the struggle
for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh
appearances of the world there is a benign power.*
It was also King’s faith that helped him face the ultimate challenge. He
knew that he might not live to see his dream of a beloved community
realized, not with his eyes of flesh. But through the eyes of faith, he had
already seen it. He made it clear in his last public speech, the night
before he was killed, in Memphis, Tennessee. He had “been to the
mountaintop” and he had “looked over” and “seen the promised land.”
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It could be that the greatest gift Martin Luther King can give us in our
time is the promise of “cosmic companionship,” which he modeled through his
faith. Why are so many people, especially young people, alienated from the
Christian church and even Christian faith? There are many factors, but high
on the list are the troubling questions that faith raises: Does God exist?
Does God care? And if God cares, why is there so much evil in the world?
These are serious questions. They deserve serious answers. There are times
when people really need consistent and coherent philosophical responses to
those questions. Dr. King could give and did give those kinds of responses.
He did have a PhD in theology after all. But more importantly, Martin
Luther King was a person who knew suffering and injustice, and faced those
realities with undying faith in a loving God.
King answered the questions—does God exist, does God care, will God
overcome injustice—many times over and always with a “yes.” The “yes” that
mattered the most did not come in the form of an intellectual argument. It
was the “yes” he gave with his life, by embodying his faith through service
to others, depending on the grace of God.
And we can all do the same thing. We can all model our faith through
service and be a light to the world. As Martin Luther King himself said in
yet another sermon:
*Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to have
a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your
verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to
serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You
don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can
be that servant.¹*
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1
Sources quoted in this post include: Martin Luther King, “Pilgrimage to
Nonviolence,” Chapter 6 of *Stride Toward Freedom*, 1958; “Pilgrimage to
Nonviolence,” for the “How My Mind Has Changed” series, *Christian Century*,
April 13, 1960; “Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution,” Sermon at
National Cathedral, March 31, 1968; “Drum Major Instinct,” Sermon at
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 4, 1968; “I Have Been to the
Mountaintop,” Address Delivered at Charles Bishop Mason Temple, Memphis,
TN, April 3, 1968. For an example of King construed as a “nominal”
Christian, see Christopher Hitchens, *God is Not Great*, 176.
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