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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's

Stone Choir, we're going to be continuing the overarching theme that we've had on many of these

episodes where we're effectively skewering sacred cows. We're going to be going after another topic today that is loved and embraced by the world. It's a big part of

conversation politically. It's in fact a big part of conversation frequently in our churches. That is a man by the name of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., also known as Michael King.

That's the name by which he was born.

So today is almost certainly going to be a two-part episode.

I did the research on his papers, on his sermons, on his speeches,

and Corey did the research on his political connections, his affiliations,

and kind of his later life outside of the immediate

sphere of the church. And so it's almost certainly going to run long enough that we don't want

to have another brutal four-hour marathon. So I think we'll probably make the call around the

hour mark that we'll probably split this in two episodes. So just so you know, there's a possibility

this might be one or it might be two.

So for the first half of this episode or the first episode of this two-part series, however, pans out,

we're going to be going over things that King wrote when he was in seminary, when he was in college,

when he was getting his graduate degree, and then when he was in seminary, when he was in college, when he was getting his graduate

degree, and then when he was a pastor, which incidentally overlaps. And so we'll go in a little bit of

the detail of the timeline there. Before I get into all the specifics, I want to warn you up front,

we are going to bury you in quotes. It is very deliberate this week that we are going

to quote way too much. The quotes are going to be too long and they're going to be too many

of them. The reason that we're going to do that, the reason that we're going to be reading a whole

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