Response to January 20, 2013 sermon, from Barb Hallows:
Hello Jeff – I greatly appreciate your sending Martin Luther King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail. I just now read it (not before your sermon as recommended!) and am most impressed by his reasoning for the necessity of nonviolent action to promote racial justice, and all the historical relevance he pointed out.
For the past several days Joan Semenuk in her daily readings has been sending excerpts from The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.; selected by Coretta Scott King, which also gives good insight into his thoughts and actions.
I am reminded of when, as a young child, we drove through S.Carolina and how I wondered at the signs to the segregated restrooms, one for White and one for Colored. I had never seen that up north, though there were other signs of segregation, such as requiring Blacks to sit in the balconies of movie theaters, and even here in Princeton, requiring Blacks to sit in the balcony at the Nassau Church! I understand that is the reason the Witherspoon Church was formed.
An important weekend to remember all that Martin Luther King, and others, said and did to end segregation and the courage exhibited in the non-violent demonstrations.
Thanks for your sermon this morning, Tough Love. Ellen Heath and I meditated on that in the Mat.5 scripture passage during our Lectio Divina session beforehand.
The Children’s Message was also most appropriate! – Barb
