Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative

09/19/2022

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The Center for Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation invites you to learn and mobilize for and democracy. Join us Oct 27-29 for "Reimagining Religious Freedom: Rights, Responsibilities, Respect."

Thank you to our generous sponsors: BJC - Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Chicago Theological Seminary, First Amendment Museum, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), The Open Church of MD, Shoulder to Shoulder, Starr King School for the Ministry, Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, and Wake Forest University School of Divinity for your support!

Click🔗 to learn more about the sessions, speakers & sponsors: https://bit.ly/reimaginerf2022

09/19/2022

THIS SATURDAY! Register below!

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: Brick by Brick and Life Beyond the Rubble

Date: September 24, 2022
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: Scarritt Bennett Center, Harambee Auditorium

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/documentary-screening-brick-by-brick-and-life-beyond-the-rubble-tickets-419655580137

In the early morning hours of March 3, 2020, an outbreak of tornadoes wreaked damage and devastation across the middle Tennessee. Several churches across Nashville were demolished by the violent storms, including North Nashville churches, St. John A.M. E. Church and Mount Bethel Baptist Church.

"Brick by Brick" documents how the Saint John A.M.E. faith community navigated learning of the damage their building sustained and making sense of their physical loss while remaining focused on the matters of justice that have guided the church from its inception.

"Life Beyond the Rubble" tells the story of the Mount Bethel Baptist Church faith community as they leaned on their steadfast faith in God in the hours, days and weeks following the storm. For this congregation, the devastation also re-centered issues of gentrification they have fought for many years.

PANELISTS
- Rev. Jacques Boyd | Pastor of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church
- Quentin Cox | Documentarian
- Rev. Lisa Hammonds | Pastor of St. John AME Church
- Teresa Smallwood | James Franklin Kelly and Hope Eyster Kelly Associate Professor of Public Theology, United Lutheran Seminary
- Emilie M. Townes | Dean and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative

09/19/2022

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: Brick by Brick and Life Beyond the Rubble

Date: September 24, 2022
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: Scarritt Bennett Center, Harambee Auditorium

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../documentary-screening...

In the early morning hours of March 3, 2020, an outbreak of tornadoes wreaked damage and devastation across the middle Tennessee. Several churches across Nashville were demolished by the violent storms, including North Nashville churches, St. John A.M. E. Church and Mount Bethel Baptist Church.

"Brick by Brick" documents how the Saint John A.M.E. faith community navigated learning of the damage their building sustained and making sense of their physical loss while remaining focused on the matters of justice that have guided the church from its inception.

"Life Beyond the Rubble" tells the story of the Mount Bethel Baptist Church faith community as they leaned on their steadfast faith in God in the hours, days and weeks following the storm. For this congregation, the devastation also re-centered issues of gentrification they have fought for many years.

PANELISTS
- Rev. Jacques Boyd | Pastor of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church
- Quentin Cox | Documentarian
- Rev. Lisa Hammonds | Pastor of St. John AME Church
- Teresa Smallwood | James Franklin Kelly and Hope Eyster Kelly Associate Professor of Public Theology, United Lutheran Seminary
- Emilie M. Townes | Dean and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, Vanderbilt Divinity School

10/01/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Joan Harrell at Auburn University's School of Communication and Journalism, who will curate the Alabama-based Mobile Institute during the spring and fall semesters of 2022! We love to see it.

The Mobile Institute will be interdisciplinary and will include Auburn University undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, Alabama community advocates, faith leaders and journalists local, statewide and national.

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09/24/2021

Our most recent mobile institute in Gainesville, FL, received wonderful press coverage from the local CBS affiliate!

Gainesville has often been called the Tale of Two Cities, the divide between the East and West Side, but local leaders are working hard to bridge the gap. Dr. Carjamin Scott is hosting a forum to discuss public health issues, many people may not want to address. "Racism is a public health issue wrea...

08/03/2021

Friends: This is happening next week! Looking forward to the lively and thought provoking conversations.

Please note that all times are in Central Time How can we re-imagine public safety in underserved, minority communities in ways that are life-giving and life-sustaining? How can public safety be ensured without reliance on armed police officers and deadly force? What steps would need to be taken

05/14/2021

“This (the religion of Christian America sustained by a corrupted version of Christianity) dying American religion has little or nothing to do with Jesus, who consistently lifted up oppressed and marginalized people — women, the poor and ethnic minorities, for example — but everything to do with white, patriarchal dominance. And as it dies, it opens up space for new voices that have been marginalized for many years, and there we find fresh hope.”

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04/23/2021

Friends--A reminder to join us from 12-1PM Central as our special guests, Hue People Vocal Ensemble provide musical selections before the afternoon panel at 1PM Central. We'll be streaming live here.

We are pleased to welcome Hue People Vocal Ensemble to the Ohio Mobile Institute as they share their gift of music. They will be performing in between the morning and afternoon sessions on Friday, April 23, at 12PM Central, and again on Saturday, April 24 at 10AM Central, to open the morning session.

Learn more about Hue People, here: https://www.huepeoplemusic.com

And register for the Institute, here: https://www.publictheologyracialjustice.org/events/2021/4/22/ohio-mobile-institute-we-cant-breathe-racism-as-a-moral-spiritual-and-public-health-crisis

04/22/2021

We are pleased to welcome Hue People Vocal Ensemble to the Ohio Mobile Institute as they share their gift of music. They will be performing in between the morning and afternoon sessions on Friday, April 23, at 12PM Central, and again on Saturday, April 24 at 10AM Central, to open the morning session.

Learn more about Hue People, here: https://www.huepeoplemusic.com

And register for the Institute, here: https://www.publictheologyracialjustice.org/events/2021/4/22/ohio-mobile-institute-we-cant-breathe-racism-as-a-moral-spiritual-and-public-health-crisis

04/12/2021

Friends: Our next mobile institute is coming up, hosted by our colleagues in Ohio. The topic is: We can't breathe: Racism as a moral, spiritual, and public health crisis.

We look forward to this three-day event!

https://www.publictheologyracialjustice.org/events/2021/4/22/ohio-mobile-institute-we-cant-breathe-racism-as-a-moral-spiritual-and-public-health-crisis