Is America Going to Hell?
Speaker:
The Reverend Drew Kennedy
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2012
About three weeks before Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by a sniper, he opined, in a memorable phrase, that the Rich Man in one of Jesus’ parables went to hell because he wanted to be “a conscientious objector in the war against poverty.” Continuing, King went on to say, “I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell.” Join me as we unpack the context for this statement and assess its validity for today in this era of “Occupy Wall Street,” on the one hand, and Milwaukee’s NAACP’s “Milwaukee Today” report from last June, on the other hand. —Drew
