Posts Tagged ‘Martin Luther King’
Holding Fast to Love and Justice—In Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
To mark and celebrate the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to mark and celebrate something that is very important to the God who created us all—love and justice held together in beautiful, creative, messy tension. “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord…
Read MoreThe Courage to Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The forces that threaten to negate life must be challenged by courage, which is the power of life to affirm itself in spite of life’s ambiguities. This requires the exercise of a creative will that enables us to hew out a stone of hope from a mountain of despair.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Today marks…
Read MorePart 2: Inner Strength for Outer Action
Part 1: Opposites in Fruitful Harmony “Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us the inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid outer…
Read MorePart 1: Opposites in Fruitful Harmony
We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you… One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be…
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