"We were made for God," King preached in 1967, "and we will be restless until we find rest in him." Over the past half-century much has been written about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Since the 1955 march in Montgomery, Alabama, King has been quoted, studied, and critiqued. Informed by these extensive writings about King and drawing heavily on King's own words-especially from his column 'Advice for Living'-Michael Long shares with us King's vision of the good life, his notion of creative living that can become our own. In engaging and conversational style, Long brings together the main ideas of King's writings and the overall concepts of his life. Careful attention to King studies and criticism about King's life are included in footnotes, providing up-to-date scholarship while allowing readers to focus on King's advice as presented in the narrative. King had an unwavering belief that the one and only starting point of creative living is the God of love and justice as revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. He preached time and time again that only God can pull us out of despair and set us on the right road to creative living-a life reflective of the love and justice that are an integral part of the character of God.

Martin Luther King Jr. on Creative Living shares with us King's vision of that life and helps us create our own vision of what it means to live creatively.