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The Rev. Ken Gordon, House of Light, 'Dr. King understood all sides need to be inclusive' birminghamtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghamtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times The Rev. Thomas Beavers, New Rising Star Church in Birmingham’s Brown Springs neighborhood, who has been pastor there for a decade, talks about Dr. Martin Luther King’s teachings of love and peace. “There’s nothing more powerful than the force of love,” Beavers said. “Whenever you attempt to fight hatred with hate, then there’s always retaliation. [King’s] message of peace was really important in helping us get to where we are. “A lot of times when you are an oppressed people and protest peacefully, the oppressor will view those peaceful actions as retaliation, even when they’re not. Peaceful protest is very important to prevent our ultimate goal [of equality] from getting lost in foolish behavior. ....
Protests in Perilous Times Need a Peacemaker Like MLK, say area pastors birminghamtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghamtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times Bishop Calvin Woods, Shiloh Baptist Church, Birmingham’s Norwood neighborhood, has served as the pastor of the church for 33 years and is a veteran in the fight against injustice, including the many marches he participated in during the Civil Rights Movement. He’s long been a firm believer in Dr. Martin Luther King’s focus on love, nonviolence, and patience. “It’s a message of striving to negotiate with those who were mistreating Blacks and minorities and society,” Woods said. “It’s the message of God, and that message will save the nation.” The Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a mixture of peaceful protesting alongside looting and violence, were similar to some actions Woods saw during the Civil Rights Movement. ....
By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times The Rev. Charles Winston, New Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Hueytown, who has served as pastor there for more than 20 years, said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of peace and nonviolence “shows absolute respect for other human beings and your relationship with Christ.” Behaving according to God’s word means aligning yourself with King’s lessons of nonviolence, he said: “It means operating from humility and respect for God.” In the ongoing fight for fairness and equality for people of color, Winston believes King’s tenets go beyond the church. “We have to try to teach it in the way we live and in the way we communicate with each other,” he said. “Where it once took humility on one side of the fence to break down the hostility on the other side of the fence, [today] it will take humility on both sides.” ....