Lieutenant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shares his life and mission of peace and Non Violence 
United States of America (Press Release) April 21, 2008 --
Cambridge, MA –Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change will be the featured guest minister at Unity Cambridge on Sunday, April 27th at 11:00A.M. A lieutenant of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. he co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement 1960 and on the Freedom Rides 1961, and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples’ Campaign by Martin Luther King.
“Our spiritual community is founded on principles which espouses positive, practical Christianity and promotes a way of life that leads to health, prosperity, happiness and peace of mind through the practices of affirmative prayer, visioning, personal growth, meditation, continuing spiritual education and humanitarian services,” says Carole Cornelison, chairwoman of Unity Cambridge’s Steering Committee. “ As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination we are delighted to host someone of Dr. Lafayette’s stature to share with our congregation his powerful message of living a life of peace and non-violence and how each person can live a live a life of peace and practice of nonviolence to make a difference in the world at large,” states Cornelison.
An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University.
He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University. He currently serves as the founding Director of the Peace Institute at the University of Rhode Island.
About Unity Cambridge: Located at the Morse School Theatre at 40 Granite Street, Cambridge, Unity Cambridge is a diverse, inclusive, welcoming, spiritual, nondenominational community that is open to all. We offer practical teaching, great contemporary music, loving family ministry, and opportunities for connection and learning. We are here to celebrate our oneness with God, and equip people for lives of spiritual power, presence and purpose. Unity Cambridge is an affiliate of the nondenominational Unity faith of Missouri, known as “the pioneers of positive thinking,” progressive, practical Christianity and the publishers of the Daily Word. For more information visit www.unitycambridge.org or call (617)-349-3440.
“Our spiritual community is founded on principles which espouses positive, practical Christianity and promotes a way of life that leads to health, prosperity, happiness and peace of mind through the practices of affirmative prayer, visioning, personal growth, meditation, continuing spiritual education and humanitarian services,” says Carole Cornelison, chairwoman of Unity Cambridge’s Steering Committee. “ As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination we are delighted to host someone of Dr. Lafayette’s stature to share with our congregation his powerful message of living a life of peace and non-violence and how each person can live a live a life of peace and practice of nonviolence to make a difference in the world at large,” states Cornelison.
An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University.
He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University. He currently serves as the founding Director of the Peace Institute at the University of Rhode Island.
About Unity Cambridge: Located at the Morse School Theatre at 40 Granite Street, Cambridge, Unity Cambridge is a diverse, inclusive, welcoming, spiritual, nondenominational community that is open to all. We offer practical teaching, great contemporary music, loving family ministry, and opportunities for connection and learning. We are here to celebrate our oneness with God, and equip people for lives of spiritual power, presence and purpose. Unity Cambridge is an affiliate of the nondenominational Unity faith of Missouri, known as “the pioneers of positive thinking,” progressive, practical Christianity and the publishers of the Daily Word. For more information visit www.unitycambridge.org or call (617)-349-3440.
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