By Mark Hancock for THE CHRISTIAN POST
Each January, Americans pause to reflect.
We honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who called the nation to reckon with injustice and recognize the God-given worth of every person. We also gather for the March for Life, standing for those whose lives are unseen, unheard, and unprotected.
These moments are bound by a shared moral conviction: that human life is sacred — and that dignity is not assigned by power, preference, or circumstance.
Respect for life is not merely a belief to affirm. It is a way of seeing the world, one that shapes how we treat others and how we understand our responsibility to them.
Dr. King understood this. His call for justice was never rooted in convenience or cultural momentum. It was anchored in a moral law higher than any human authority. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King wrote that unjust laws degrade human personality rather than uphold it. Such laws, he argued, violate the dignity God has already bestowed.
