A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

A landmark collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s best known homilies and sermons—with selections from Strength to Love.

As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he...