"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."
Posts Tagged: "Nonviolence"
November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall
November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview
Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."
April 3, 2009: MLK Jr. in Gandhi’s Footsteps
The nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi freed ciivl rights movement veteran and Georgia congressman John Lewis not to hate, says Lewis, who was part of a recent pilgrimage to India to retrace Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1959 trip there.
January 16, 2004: John Lewis Extended Interview
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with Rep. John Lewis about religion and the civil rights movement.



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