“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.” Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk…
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” “When you liberate others, you liberate yourself.” “I’ve got the light of freedom; I’m gonna let it shine.” Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist, 1917-1977 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,…
The following is the sermon Pastor Travis Stanley preached at the 2016 Norwalk Area Ministerial Association’s Community Thanksgiving Service, held at New Life Lutheran Church.