{"id":33149,"date":"2016-01-18T05:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=33149"},"modified":"2016-01-18T05:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:59:49","slug":"where-do-we-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/01\/where-do-we-go-from-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Do We Go From Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33150\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/01\/MLK-Basic-Income-1024x576.png\" alt=\"MLK Basic Income\" width=\"521\" height=\"293\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic;color: #000000\">We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote comes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0415942888\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0415942888&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=TAJXQBFZZ6YTVNVE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWhere Do We Go From Here?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/martin-luther-king-on-science-and-religion.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">King<\/a> was a social <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/martin-luther-king-jr-liberal-or-conservative\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">liberal<\/a> is well known. That he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/01\/martin-luther-king-and-liberal-theology.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">theological liberal<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/02\/progressive-and-liberal-christianity.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">less widely known<\/a>. But having highlighted both those points in years past on Martin Luther King Day, I thought that today I would highlight\u00a0his economic liberalism, which became increasingly radical until, towards the end of his life, he supported the adoption of a <a href=\"http:\/\/basicincome-europe.org\/ubie\/brief-history-basic-income-ideas\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">universal basic income<\/a>. This was a focus in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/08\/martin-luther-kings-economic-dream-a-guaranteed-income-for-all-americans\/279147\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his final book<\/a>, which had the same title as the speech from which the quote above comes: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00E32PWAO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00E32PWAO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=SH7OI6QJEVH33EZG\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00E32PWAO\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It would be great if today, as we commemorate King\u2019s legacy, we were to discuss not only his social vision, and not only his theological vision, but his economic vision as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00E32PWAO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00E32PWAO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=SH7OI6QJEVH33EZG\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00E32PWAO&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00E32PWAO\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. The quote comes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s speech \u201cWhere Do We Go From Here?\u201d\u00a0 That King was a social liberal is well known. That he was a theological liberal is less widely known. But having highlighted both those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":33150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Do We Go From Here?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. The quote comes from Rev. 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