Voices from the Dexter Pulpit

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Michael Thurman, the current pastor of the Dexter church, is a Montgomery native. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and has served as executive director of the Home Missions Board for the Southern Baptist Convention. He started the first African American church in Ames, Iowa. He was a contributor to A Mighty Long Journey, An African American Church Planter's Guide, a book of sermons about racial reconciliation.

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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, is known worldwide as the church pastored by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This book gathers sermons from King, King's predecessor Vernon Johns, and all the pastors who have served the church in the post-King era.