Love Is the Center: Lewis V. Baldwin

Drawing on the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s published and unpublished sermons, speeches, and writings, Lewis V. Baldwin’s recent book, The Arc of Truth, explores King's lifelong pilgrimage in pursuit of truth.

Baldwin investigates King's determination to speak truth to power, and his untiring efforts to actualize what he envisioned as the truthful ends of the beloved community through the truthful means of nonviolent direct action. King believed, taught, and demonstrated by example that truth derives from a revolution in the heart, mind, and soul before it can be translated into institutions and structures that guarantee freedom, justice, human dignity, equality of opportunity, and peace.

Lewis V. Baldwin is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author or editor of eleven books on Martin Luther King, Jr., including The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010).