Even a limping dog in Bangalore, India, has something to teach us about justice, the Rev. Dr. Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar told worshipers at the Presbyterian Center Chapel in Louisville during this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Shivering together in 18-degree weather Friday morning, a dozen or so staff working at the Presbyterian Center helped draw the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to a close on the Center’s steps by — no surprise — praying for their community, nation and world.
Scholar and pastor the Rev. Dr. Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar moved to the U.S. from her native India 12 days before Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American man from Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a white police officer. Brown’s covered body lay on the street for nearly four hours while police investigated, an act that outraged many people in the community and around the nation.
Even a limping dog in Bangalore, India has something to teach us about justice, the Rev. Dr. Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar told worshipers at the Presbyterian Center Chapel Wednesday during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Thought-provoking, relevant, hopeful – wow!
All were words used to describe the morning sermon delivered by The Rev. Dr. Kevin W. Cosby, pastor of St. Stephen Baptist Church and president of Simmons College of Kentucky, as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) celebrated and commemorated the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. last week.
“Justice and only justice you shall pursue,” God’s admonition taken from Deuteronomy 16, is the theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 18-25.
