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Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Service
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
MLK Day Speaker Archives
![]() | The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Worship Service at High Point University brings the most influential preachers in the world to commemorate and celebrate Dr. King’s memory and legacy. It is a unique worship experience that testifies to what a values-based, liberal arts education does: inspiring intellectual growth in service of a transformed world shaped by justice and compassion. High Point University welcomed Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton, Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Dean Walton is the author of Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (NYU Press, 2009) and A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018), which blends his work from the pulpit and classroom. A Lens of Love explores the Bible from the perspective of the most vulnerable and violated characters toward developing a Christian social ethic of radical inclusion and human affirmation. |
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2021- Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton-View Service View Q&A |
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![]() 2020 – Rev. Michael Walrond | ![]() 2019 - Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III View Worship Service | ![]() 2018 - Bishop Vashti McKenzie View Worship Service |
![]() 2017 – Bishop Jonathan Holston View Worship Service | ![]() 2016 – Rev. Prince Rivers | ![]() 2015, 2009 – Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock View Worship Service |
![]() 2014 – Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman View Worship Service | ![]() 2013 – Dr. Clifford Jones | ![]() 2012 – Rev. Tyrone Gordon |
![]() 2011 – Dr. Charles Adams | ![]() 2010 – Rev. Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. | ![]() 2008 – Rev. Dr. John Kinney |
![]() 2007 – Rev. Dr. James Forbes | ![]() 2006 - Ms Wanda Stark | ![]() 2003 – Rev. Arnetta Beverly |