In 2024, the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. This reflects the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, emphasized in their announcement that the Clock can be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love” (King, Stride, 80). Both “morally and practically” committed to nonviolence, King believed that “the Christian doctrine of love operating...| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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It is 89 seconds to midnight.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists