Thurman Conversation Series on Racial Justice and Advocacy
Howard Thurman spoke words of compassion, wisdom, and strength—he also challenged us to make the church a place where we reach across barriers and change the systems of oppression in our church and in our world. In his words, “American Christianity has betrayed the religion of Jesus almost beyond redemption. Churches have been established for the underprivileged, the weak, the poor on the theory they prefer to be among themselves. Churches have been established for the Chinese, the Japanese, the Korean, the Mexican, the Filipino, the Italian, and the Negro with the same theory in mind. The result is that in the one place in which normal, free contacts might be naturally established—in which the relations of the individual to his God should take priority over the conditions of class, race, power, status, wealth, or the like—this place is one of the chief instruments for guaranteeing barriers.” (Jesus and the Disinherited, 98)
These will be conversations between The Rev. Allan Cole and thinkers, activists, and partners in dismantling racism, creating justice, and working across difference. Please invite your friends and family and anyone else you think might be interested. We are going to educate ourselves and each other and pursue justice with all our hearts and minds. We can be the church of love and justice. Come find out how.
THE THURMAN CONVERSATIONS are co-sponsored by the Race Justice Task force of the Episcopal Church in Colorado and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. We invite thinkers, activists, and trouble makers across the myriad ways to seek justice to come and talk to us live every other Thursday evening at 7:00 MST. The conversations are offered on Zoom, live on Facebook, and recorded. Invitations to join are sent out for each conversation.
The Conversations
Finding Culture in the Fields
The foundation is spiritual practice
Food as a Liberation Movement
Grains of Faith
Food Justice & Faith in Action
CLIMATE JUSTICE IS A THEOLOGICAL ISSUE
THE CHurCH IS ANTI-SEMITIC AND IT HURTS
GRAPPLING WITH OUR SUPREMACIST HISTORY
ONE PASTOR TO ANOTHER, THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN
WOMEN OF RESOLUTION AND SANCTUARY IN THE CHURCH
Kym Lucas, Nadia Bolz-Weber, & Celene Lillie - September 24, 2020
THE ACLU TALKS ABOUT ABOLITION AND CRIMINAL LEGAL REFORM
WELCOMING THE STRANGER
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES OF IMMIGRATION ACTIVISM
CENTERING NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES IN THE CHURCH
BLACK THEOLOGY AS A MASS MOVEMENT
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If you have any questions, please email office@stpaulslakewood.org