Gabriel Salguero

Gabriel Salguero

Pastor and Executive Member, Latino Leadership Circle

Rev. Gabriel Salguero is a pastor and executive member of the Latino Leadership Circle. The "On Faith" panelist is also director of the Hispanic Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his M.Div. from New Brunswick Theological Seminary and is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He and his wife, Jeanette, co-pastor the multicultural Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene in New York City. He serves on the board of Sojourners. Gabriel has been called one of the emerging voices of Latino evangelicals. He also serves as a member of the Equal Employment Advisory Commission for the state of New Jersey. Close.

Gabriel Salguero

Pastor and Executive Member, Latino Leadership Circle

Rev. Gabriel Salguero is a pastor and executive member of the Latino Leadership Circle. The "On Faith" panelist is also director of the Hispanic Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary. more »

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April 5, 2008 9:23 AM

Taming Our Savagery, 40 Years Later

The Question: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago. What are your memories of that day? What impact did it have on you? How is King relevant to you and to us today?

I was born in 1973 five years after the tragic April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a modern Moses. My acquaintance with Dr. King is through the lens of reading his books, taking courses on King in college, seminary, and Ph.D work. I began to know King as a child watching documentaries like "Eyes on The Prize" or movies in history class. Still as I grew King's legacy shaped me more than I imagined as a pastor, thinker, and leader in my community.

In high school I received an award for speaking about King and multiculturalism. I still remember it was called "E Pluribus Unum." King's embracing of non-violent passive resistance, his confrontation of Jim Crow segregation, his concern for people in poverty, and his critique of militarism revealed a unique organic intellectual that the church and world should not just admire but emulate. King dared to prophetically challenge the United States in order to "redeem the Soul of America" from its bigotry and violence.

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