This MLK Day: Watch Adjoa Andoh & Paterson Joseph perform Dr. King’s last Xmas sermon

Posted on January 15, 2024 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Martin Luther King, MLK

MARKING MLK DAY – 15TH JANUARY

Dear friends, colleagues and supporters,

‘PEACE ON EARTH’

With the Vietnam war at its height, the support of Dr. King and his wife Coretta Scott King for the anti-Vietnam war movement was becoming ever more vocal. It was in this context that he delivered what proved to be his last sermon on 24th December 1967.

We are sharing the video of our BHM event at St. John’s Church Waterloo, in London, where we were honoured to have actors Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph memorably perform Dr. King’s final Christmas Sermon.

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Sharing MLK events + ID refresh

Posted on October 25, 2023 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Climate change, Martin Luther King Jr., Militarism, MLK

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MLK’s 1967 Christmas Sermon

Dear friends and supporters,

This Sunday we sat in the beautiful St. John’s Church Waterloo and listened to the words of Revd Dr Martin Luther King interpreted beautifully, sensitively and passionately by actors Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph. The sermon was from Christmas Eve 1967, as bombs rained down on Vietnam and Dr. King’s commitment to the anti-Vietnam war movement was at its height.

MLK’s last Christmas sermon can be read here – it reads as if written for today, such is the brilliance of his mind. His writing, his empathy for all humanity and his consummate skill in framing contemporary concerns through the lens of his profound faith are peerless.

Both the performed reading and the brilliant discussion with Adjoa Andoh, Priya Lukka, Dionne Gravesande, Shanon Shah – chaired by Canon Giles Goddard – were filmed and we will be sharing at Christmas time.

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MLK film & Transform Defence at Union Chapel

Posted on March 30, 2022 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Martin Luther King Jr., MLK

To mark April 4^th, the date of MLK’s assassination, TPNS was invited to host a screening of ‘From Montgomery to Memphis’ on 26 March at the Union Chapel Islington .

‘From Montgomery to Memphis’ was released in 1970, and follows Dr.King’s 13 years of civil rights activism, from his first bus boycotts to his assassination on April 4th, 1968. In 1967, MLK addressed the ‘triple evils’ of poverty, racism and militarism. His analysis was that they were indivisible. His analysis remains as relevant then as today and is at the heart of our MLK Global project.

Ahead of the screening, and linked to the MLK theme of ‘The Beloved Community’, TPNS was invited to give a talk about its work in general and its Transform Defence project in particular – especially the links between military spending and military emissions. It also includes reference to its MLK Global work.The TPNS programme began with a short COP26 related video, a 20min presentation by Deborah Burton and closed with a video on the topic of the inter-generational nature of campaign and change. As Nelson Mandela said: ‘It seem impossible until it’s done’.

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