Books written by Lewis V. Baldwin

Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.

“I can see him laughing now,” remarked Verdie Davis, one of the church mothers.34 According to Nelson Malden, a Dexter member and also King, Jr.'s barber, King, Jr.'s down-to-earth jocularity and off-the-cuff quips often sparked sudden ...
The Mark of a Man: Peter Spencer and the African Union Methodist Tradition : the Man, the Movement, the Message,...

In 1986 Dr. Baldwin co-authored with Dr. Horace Wallace a two-volume guide to the study of the black heritage in Methodism, called Touched by Grace: Black Methodist Heritage in the United Methodist Church. Dr. Baldwin is currently ...
Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin

A Muslim and Christian scholar join forces to explore the intellectual and spiritual territory separating Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, sometimes joining the two in common space.
Revives My Soul Again: The Spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr.

This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality.
In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal Lewis V. Baldwin, Paul R. Dekar ... See Cheryl J. Sanders, Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People: A Path to African American Social Transformation (Minneapolis: ...
Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King—then, now, and in the future.
"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

Presents Dr. King's writings on global human rights and liberation.
There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr

Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision
Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr

34. Levine, Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement, 118, 120; and Long, Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement, 78–80. 35. Levine, Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement, 120–21; Rustin, ...
The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr

See Carson et al., eds., King Papers, IV, 45, 238, 264–266, and 457–458; and Billy Graham and the Black Community ... Michael G. Long, Billy Graham and the Beloved Community: America's Evangelist and the Dream ofMartin Luther King, ...
The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.: Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy

Michael Long is right in saying that “by the time of the assassination, Graham had also sniffed at King's pie-on-the-earth theology.” See Long, Billy Graham and the Beloved Community, 2. 31. Lewis V. Baldwin, “The Perversion of Public ...
To Make the Wounded Whole

121 Concerning his drive toward material prosperity , Ike once remarked that he used to believe he had to suffer and sacrifice so he could have milk and ... Ike , ” 47 . 125. Sanders , “ The Gospel According to Rev. Ike Lift Every Voice 49.
Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr

"Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.": pages 345-346.
The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.

46 Baldwin, Behind the Public Veil, 13–319; Burrow, Theology of Resistance, 122. 47 Washington, Testament, 316. 48 Vicki L. Crawford and Lewis V. Baldwin, eds., Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King, ...
Plenty Good Room: A Lenten Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals

" Marilyn E. Thornton wrote all-new lessons appropriate to the season. Leader helps can be found in the book providing discussion questions and activities.
Plenty Good Room Student: A Bible Study Based on African-American Spirituals

" Leaders use the teacher's guide for session format, discussion questions, and activities. An accompanying CD, included with the teacher's guide, features all six songs and makes listening and learning fun and interactive!
Forging Faith, Building Freedom: African American Faith Experiences in Delaware, 1800-1980

Forging Faith, Building Freedom: African American Faith Experiences in Delaware, 1800-1980
Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa

Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is celebrated in over one hundred countries, yet his international influence has received little attention. That King devoted his life to the civil and human...
Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr

An award-winning author looks at the personal prayers that Martin Luther King Jr. recited, explaining how King turned to private prayer and meditation for his own spiritual fulfillment, and to public prayer as part of his sermonic discourse ...
The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr

... on truth. See Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait (New York: New American Library, 1963), 72–73. 2 See Rufus Burrow Jr., Ethical Prophets along the Way: Those Hall of Famers (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020), 159–85; Clayborne Carson ...