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Commentary: Martin Luther King’s last Sunday sermon is as relevant today as it was in 1968

Washington • Every preacher I’ve ever known has found themselves in the same situation at one point in their ministry: With the calendar racing toward Sunday, we turn to old sermons to see how someone else approached a tough topic or a challenging piece of Scripture.

Often these yellowed sermons feel like a journey through an antique shop: quaint and interesting, perhaps even curious, but mostly just another historic artifact that once belonged to another person in another age.

But every once in awhile, you stumble across words that seem to shout across the decades.