Racial Justice and Healing

2022 Advent Series: A New Way of Being

The Northern Province Racial Justice Team presented their 2022 Advent Series, ” A New Way of Being: Light, Wind, Healing, Home” on four Wednesdays in December.  The series featured a music offering, devotions, presentations by Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, Atlanta, GA and recent recipient of the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, and small group discussions.

Below are recordings of each session:

Nov. 30 “Where can we find light…” Amanda Gorman Presentation – “Racism has wounded all of us.” [Dr. Catherine Meeks speaking in Montgomery, AL, Sept. 2022]

 

Dec. 07 Choosing Healing – “Do you want to get well?” Jesus Presentation – Choosing Wellness, Creating Beloved Community, and Getting Out of Prison” [Dr. Catherine Meeks speaking in Montgomery, AL, Sept. 2022]

Dec. 14 Choosing Healing –  “Trusting the new wind…”  Walter Brueggemann Presentation – Dr. Catherine Meeks, “Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited”

 Dec. 21 “Get home with grace together as children of God.”  Catherine Meeks Presentation – Stay Faithful [Dr. Catherine Meeks speaking in Montgomery, AL, Sept. 2022]

Resources for racial justice and healing, and for the series, may be found at https://www.moravian.org/northern/category/racial-justice-and-healing/

Bibliography for this series can be found here (PDF).