On Sunday May 16,2010, Donald Temple was invited to address St. Augustine's Episcopal Church on the spirituality of renown Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The following is an excerpt of that address. The complete speech can be found in the Speech and Lecture section of this blog here.
"How does one even begin to stick his toe in the water of Thurgood’s spirituality except perhaps, as here, through his work. In that respect, it has been said that “Words are wonderful, but deeds are divine.” I would like to briefly talk about Thurgood from this perspective: “Thurgood: taking us to a place in the law where God dwells.”
Where is that place? Where is the place in the law where God Dwells?
Fundamentally, in the deep religious convictions of world religions, all men and women are children of God. And God’s love, at least theoretically, knows no color line. As children of God we too espouse color blindness in our own spiritual and Christian life journeys.
In Galatians 3.28 it is written: “ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (more...)
