In 1967 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on August 16 in Atlanta, Georgia, precisely on the issue of love and power. He taught the audience that “one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites, polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.”1 The simple, ordinary (or ...“truthy”) wisdom of the world pits love against power, and power aga