"Between the voices and concerns of two prophetic pragmatists and a retired Lutheran minister, the beloved community comes to life in these pages. The theme is presented and developed in reflective conversation that digs deeply into a rich variety of traditions and concerns. Attentive readers will face a kind of altar call to begin the hard work of joining and serving the community they seek." --Roger Ward, Georgetown College "This text provides a kaleidoscope on Josiah Royce's felicitous concept of 'the beloved community,' which was most powerfully elaborated in the life, work, and rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. Bridging the academy and the pulpit, the contributors harmonize around the cries of the wounded within a wounded world. Its human, all-too-human deficiencies notwithstanding, Goodson, Stone, and Kuehnert focus on what a beloved community demands of us who have the ears to hear." --William David Hart, Macalester College.