I was hoping to hear something at church today about Martin Luther King.  I kind of expected it,  but it didn’t come.  I was a bit angry.  King has been an inpiration to me for 26 years,  since I saw a TV mini-series in 1978 called “King“,  where King was portrayed by Paul Winfield.  Although Winfield didn’t look or sound at all like King,  he gave an impassioned performance,  and from that day forward,  I was somewhat taken with and inspired by the speeches and writings I sought out and read.  I wrote a college paper in Law and Society class on “King and Civil Disobedience“, and then the following year,  in Seminary ,  wrote one on “The Southern Baptist Resonse to Martin Luther King“ for Church History class.  A few years later,  when the movie “Gandhi“ came out, I was there because I knew that King had been inspired by Gandhi.