Remembering Selma
Jan. 16th, 2011 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillibetToday at church we remembered Martin Luther King, Jr. The lay leader doing the "Time for All Ages" (a/k/a the children's sermon) got us all up and waving our hands to illustrate "Motivate, Educate, Agitate, Lead" and talked about how Dr. King exemplified those principles and how as the children learn to fight injustice, one of the core teachings of the Religious Education program, they will join in the fight for racial equality, a fight that will most likely continue throughout their lifetimes.
And then Marta talked about Selma and about two of the people killed there, James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, both of whom were UUs. In the congregation today was another of the more than 100 UU ministers who answered Dr. King's telegraphed call to all the ministers in the country to come to Selma to support the work there after Bloody Sunday. She talked about how, when she was a child, these stories were too new, too charged, to be taught in the church. But even at a distance of more than forty years, they are powerful ones.
And then Marta talked about Selma and about two of the people killed there, James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, both of whom were UUs. In the congregation today was another of the more than 100 UU ministers who answered Dr. King's telegraphed call to all the ministers in the country to come to Selma to support the work there after Bloody Sunday. She talked about how, when she was a child, these stories were too new, too charged, to be taught in the church. But even at a distance of more than forty years, they are powerful ones.
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Date: 2011-01-17 08:58 pm (UTC)