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The Extraordinary Life and Times of Mahatma Gandhi – Part 2

The Extraordinary Life and  Times of Mahatma Gandhi – Part 2

Gandhiji’s Story Thus Far… Last week, we read about the birth and youth of the young boy Mohandas who would grow up to be universally revered as the Mahatma. He had an ordinary childhood, went to school, made friends, and got a rude awakening into the dreaded social specter of the caste system. This week, […]

Commemorating 150 Years of Mahatma Gandhi’s Spiritual Inspiration

Commemorating 150 Years of  Mahatma Gandhi’s Spiritual Inspiration

HOUSTON: From the early days of the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. referred to Mahatma Gandhi as “the guiding light” of nonviolent social change. Deeply influenced by the works of Gandhi while studying at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King made the struggle for civil liberty for African- Americans in the USA […]