Wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. not only a disciple of Jesus but, in some very real sense, an embodiment of Jesus for us in our own time and place in history? . . . I have come to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was one of us, a human brother on this earth. Through his life we are able to recognize the Spirit of God as the power generating and struggling for mutual relation among us collectively and individually.
— Carter Heyward, God in the Balance