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Friday, April 15, 12:00 pm through Sunday, April 17, 7:00 pm
Friday, April 15
12:00p Registration
1:00p Welcome: Embodying Our Leadership, Loving Our Movements
— Jardana Peacock
2:00p SESSION 1 — America’s Greatest Sin: A Frank Talk on Race
— Jim Wallis and Jacqui Lewis
4:00p Break
4:15p Opening Small Group Conversations
5:30p Dinner Break
7:00p SESSION 2 — Telling the Truth
— Waltrina Middleton, Karyn Carlo, Joey Morelli, & Candace Simpson
8:30p Break
9:00p Pub Theology*
— Micky ScottBey Jones and Jim Kast-Keat
Saturday, April 16
8:00a Coffee and Registration
8:30a In Memoriam
— Taquiena Boston
9:00a SESSION 3 — What Does Revolutionary Love Look Like?
— Micky ScottBey Jones, Chris Crass, & Valarie Kaur
11:30a Lunch Break
1:00p SESSION 4 — Race, Politics, and Revolutionary Love*
— Melissa Harris-Perry
2:30p Break
2:45p WORKSHOPS
• A Multifaith Theology & Ethics of Resistance
— Michael-Ray Mathews, Amichai Lau-Lavie, & Traci West
• Intersectionality: LGBTQ + Race
— Caitlin Breedlove & Teresa Pasquale
• The Art of Sacred Confrontations
— Naomi Christine Leapheart & John Janka
• Black Lives Matter: Media and Movement Making
— Melvin Bray, Ashley Harness, Hannah Bonner, Lena Gardner, Queen Mother Imakhu, Jamye Wooten, & Sharon Groves
• The Moral Crisis of Whiteness
— Holly Roach, Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward, & Peter Heltzel
• Tools & Tactics: Solidarity, Leadership, and When to Follow
— Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, Chris Crass, & Grace Ji-Sun Kim
• Embodied Organizing Through Ritual and Story
— Elizabeth Nguyen & Lisa Anderson
• Dismantling Unconscious Racial Bias
— Anurag Gupta and Vasudha Gupta
4:15p Break
4:30p WORKSHOPS
• A Multifaith Theology & Ethics of Resistance
— Michael-Ray Mathews, Amichai Lau-Lavie, & Traci West
• Intersectionality: LGBTQ + Race
— Caitlin Breedlove & Teresa Pasquale
• The Art of Sacred Confrontations
— Naomi Christine Leapheart & John Janka
• Black Lives Matter: Media and Movement Making
— Melvin Bray, Ashley Harness, Hannah Bonner, Lena Gardner, Queen Mother Imakhu, Jamye Wooten, & Sharon Groves
• The Moral Crisis of Whiteness
— Holly Roach, Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward, & Peter Heltzel
• Tools & Tactics: Solidarity, Leadership, and When to Follow
— Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, Chris Crass, & Grace Ji-Sun Kim
• Embodied Organizing Through Ritual and Story
— Elizabeth Nguyen & Lisa Anderson
• Dismantling Unconscious Racial Bias
— Anurag Gupta and Vasudha Gupta
6:00p Dinner Break
7:30p Art = Justice: This One Girl’s Story*
— Concert version of the musical by Bil Wright and Dionne McClain-Freeney
Sunday, April 17
9:00a Coffee and Conversation
9:30a SESSION 5A — Contemplative Practice*
— Teresa Pasquale
9:30a Celebration! Worship A
— Jacqui Lewis, preaching
10:45a Break
11:15a SESSION 5B — Movement for the Movement*
— Allison Mickelson
11:15a Celebration! Worship B
— Jacqui Lewis, preaching
12:45p Lunch Break
2:00p SESSION 6 — When Black Lives (REALLY) Matter…
— Marlin Lavanhar and Hussein Rashid
3:00p SESSION 7 — Authentic Lamenting: Weeping. Worshiping. Working
— Deborah and Miguel De La Torre
4:00p Cocktail Conversations
5:00p Art & Soul Worship Celebration
— Yvette Flunder, preaching • Music by BETTY
7:00p Building Closes
I preach Sunday morning and hope it will be possible to rejoin the conference early afternoon without disrupting too much.
Rev. Karen Brammer
December 29, 2015 at 12:29 pm
This schedule looks amazing, hoping to be there…
John Paul Ross
March 3, 2016 at 1:06 am
Further info on the “special event” for Saturday night?
Jeanne Pupke
March 29, 2016 at 11:26 am
Is it possible to register for workshops now, or do we do it when we get there. If now, how is it done. I have already paid for the conference.
Carolyn Savadkin
March 31, 2016 at 3:57 pmregister_sidebar_widget
Hi Carolyn!
We just sent an email about this today. I will resend you the email explaining how to register for workshops.
Thanks,
The Middle Project Staff
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March 31, 2016 at 4:05 pmregister_sidebar_widget
Hi Jeanne Pupke! Yes, there is further info about the special event. Please visit the URL we’ve added. Thanks! -The Middle Project Staff
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Contents
A. Welcome
B. Conference Schedule
C. Conference Venue
D. Social Media Guidelines and WiFi
E. Presenter Biographies
F. Area Restaurants and Top Things to Do in NYC
G. About Middle Collegiate Church and The Middle Project
H. Middle Church Media
I. The Leading Edge Conference 2017
J. Middle Notes Newsletter
RESOURCES
K. Essays and Blogs on Race
L. Selected Bibliography
M. “Doing Church and Doing Justice:
A Portrait of Millennials at Middle Church”
N. “10 Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial,
Multicultural Congregation”
SESSIONS
O. Presenters’ Materials
P. Evaluation Forms
THE LEADING EDGE 2016
REVOLUTIONARY LOVE
Tools, Tactics, and Truth-telling to Dismantle Racism
Friday, April 15–Sunday, April 17, 2016 at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City
50 East 7th Street • New York, NY 10003 • (212) 477-0666 • middlechurch.org
April 15, 2016
Dear Preachers and Prophets, Professors, and Poets;
Dear Activists and Organizers, Teachers, and Students;
Dear Healers and Prayer-Warriors, Liberators, and Movement-Makers:
We are here. In Manhattan. At Middle Church. Standing on a precipice. Looking toward the horizon. Hopeful. Defiant. Wary. Persevering.
We are here. Eager. Anxious. Angry. Determined. To make Revolutionary Love a tool for dismantling racism. To make connections and have conversations that are truthful and tactical. To create strategies and build coalitions that will kick racism in the butt and put our nation on a course toward healing.
We came because we are serious, but we know we will need to play. To pray. To laugh and sing and dance. We will need to weep, and rock, and maybe even moan. We will hold each other—together and accountable. We need each other. To survive and thrive.
We are on the move, in this movement for racial justice. And we will not be deterred; we won’t let anyone turn us around. Not until we get to freedom.
We offer special thanks to The Middle Project, Transform Network, The Unitarian Universalist Association, and Auburn Theological Seminary for partnering with us on this, our tenth annual conference for leaders in multiracial/multicultural congregations.
Thanks to all of you for coming, for being a partner and an ally. Thank you for the words you will say and the risks you will take. Thank you for the wisdom you will share and the questions you will ask. Thank you for the learning community you will be, this weekend
and in times to come.
Thank you for your unique and particular self. For the experiences that have shaped you. For your vulnerability and your courage. Racism matters in our nation; it has affected all of us. We need to dismantle its power.
Revolutionary Love will make a way, Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. • Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church
Rev. John Janka • Program Director, The Middle Project
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Conference Schedule
Friday April 15, 2016
12:00−1:00P Registration Social Hall
1:00–2:00P Welcome: Embodying Our Leadership,
Loving Our Movements
— Jardana Peacock
Sanctuary
2:00–3:00P SESSION 1: America’s Greatest Sin:
A Frank Talk on Race
— Jim Wallis and Jacqui Lewis
Sanctuary
4:00–4:15P Break Social Hall
4:15–5:30P Opening Small Group Conversations
— John Janka and Janice Marie Johnson
1 Sanctuary
2 Community Room—
Cellar
3 Conference Room—
Cellar
4 Wee Care—3rd Floor
5 3rd Floor Studio
6 4th Floor Classroom
7 4th Floor Studio
8 5th Floor Parlor
5:30–7:00P Dinner break On your own
7:00–8:30P SESSION 2: Telling the Truth
— Waltrina Middleton, Karyn Carlo, Joey Morelli,
Candace Simpson
Sanctuary
8:30–9:00P Break
9:00–10:00P Pub Theology
— Jim Kast-Keat and Micky ScottBey Jones
CASH ONLY – ATM onsite
Jimmy’s 43 at
43 East 7th Street
Please complete your daily evaluations and place them in the box in the Narthex or Social Hall.
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Saturday April 16, 2016
8:00–8:30A Coffee and Registration Social Hall
8:30A–9:00A In Memoriam
— Taquiena Boston Sanctuary
9:00–11:30A SESSION 3: What Does Revolutionary Love Look Like?
— Micky ScottBey Jones, Chris Crass, Valarie Kaur Sanctuary
11:30–1:00P Lunch On your own
1:00–2:30P SESSION 4: Race, Politics, and Revolutionary Love
— Melissa Harris-Perry Sanctuary
2:30–2:45P Break Social Hall
2:45–4:15P
Workshops
A Multifaith Theo/Ethics of Resistance
— Amichai Lau-Lavie, Michael-Ray Mathews, Traci West
Intersectionality: LGBTQ + Race
— Caitlin Breedlove, Teresa Pasquale
The Art of Sacred Confrontations
— John Janka, Naomi Christine Leapheart
Black Lives Matter: Media and Movement Making
—Sharon Groves, Melvin Bray, Hannah Bonner,
Lena Gardner, Ashley Harness, Queen Mother Imakhu,
Jamye Wooten
The Moral Crisis of Whiteness
— Peter Heltzel, Holly Roach, Betty-Jeanne Rueters-Ward
Tools & Tactics: Solidarity, Leadership and
When to Follow
— Chris Crass, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Melinda Weekes-Laidlow
Embodied Organizing Through Ritual and Story
— Lisa Anderson, Elizabeth Nguyen, Mykal Slack
Dismantling Unconscious Racial Bias
— Anurag Gupta and Vasudha Gupta
See posted room
assignments.
4:15–4:30P Break Social Hall
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4:30–6:00P
Workshops
A Multifaith Theo/Ethics of Resistance
— Amichai Lau-Lavie, Michael-Ray Mathews, Traci West
Intersectionality: LGBTQ + Race
— Caitlin Breedlove, Teresa Pasquale
The Art of Sacred Confrontations
— John Janka, Naomi Christine Leapheart
Black Lives Matter: Media and Movement Making
—Sharon Groves, Melvin Bray, Hannah Bonner,
Lena Gardner, Ashley Harness, Queen Mother Imakhu,
Jamye Wooten
The Moral Crisis of Whiteness
— Peter Heltzel, Holly Roach, Betty-Jeanne Rueters-Ward
Tools & Tactics: Solidarity, Leadership and
When to Follow
— Chris Crass, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Melinda Weekes-Laidlow
Embodied Organizing Through Ritual and Story
— Lisa Anderson, Elizabeth Nguyen, Mykal Slack
Dismantling Unconscious Racial Bias
— Anurag Gupta, Vasudha Gupta
See posted room assignments.
6:00–7:30P Dinner break On your own
7:30–9:00P Art = Justice: “This One Girl’s Story”
— Concert version of the musical by Bil Wright and
Dionne McClain-Freeney
Free to conference attendees • $10 to the public
Sanctuary
Please enter from
Second Avenue
Please complete your daily evaluations and place them in the box in the Narthex or Social Hall.
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Sunday April 17, 2016
9:00–9:30A Coffee and Conversation Social Hall
9:30–10:45A SESSION 5A: Contemplative Practice
— Teresa Pasquale
CELEBRATION! WORSHIP A
— Jacqui Lewis, preaching (Identical to Worship B)
4th Floor Studio
Sanctuary
10:45–11:15A Break Social Hall
11:15–12:45A SESSION 5B: Movement for the Movement
— Allison Mickelson
CELEBRATION! WORSHIP B
— Jacqui Lewis, preaching (Identical to Worship A)
4th Floor Studio
Sanctuary
12:45–2:00P Lunch break Social Hall
4th Floor Studio
2:00–3:00P SESSION 6: When Black Lives (REALLY) Matter . . .
— Marlin Lavanhar and Hussein Rashid Sanctuary
3:00–4:00P SESSION 7: Authentic Lamenting—
Weeping. Worshiping. Working.
— Deborah and Miguel De La Torre
Sanctuary
4:00–5:00P Cocktail Conversations Social Hall
Community Room
5:00–6:15P Art & Soul Worship:
“We Won’t Be Silent Any More!”
— Yvette Flunder, preaching • Music by BETTY
Sanctuary
Please complete your daily evaluations and place them in the box in the Narthex or Social Hall.
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Conference Venue
Middle Collegiate Church is open to the public.
Please wear your name badge and keep your belongings with you at all times.
Sanctuary Entrance: 112 Second Avenue
Church House:
50 E. 7th St.
Social Hall
• Hospitality
• Bookstore
• Charging
stations
Sanctuary
• Plenary
sessions
• Worship
Stair to
Lower Level
• Restrooms
• Conference Room
• Community Room
Stair to
Lower Level
• More Restrooms
• Conference Room
• Community Room
Restroom
ELEVATOR
to ALL Levels
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Social Media Guidelines
Official Hashtag: #RevLove16
The Middle Project encourages the use of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest, Periscope, and blogging as a way to highlight, discuss, critique, promote, and/or summarize the Revolutionary Love conference
experience.
As you engage on social media during the conference, please remember the following:
• Follow us on Twitter (@middleproject)
• Use the #RevLove16 hashtag
• Follow the conference speakers at the Revolutionary Love Twitter List at twitter.com/middleproject/lists/RevLove16
• Follow us on Facebook (/TheMiddleProject)
• Share your questions and connect with other conference attendees on the Revolutionary Love Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/MiddleConference)
• Tweet, Snap, Pin, ‘Gram, and update your blog and favorite social media platforms with what photos, videos, quotes, and comments from the conference.
(And don’t forget to use the #RevLove16 hashtag!)
• Share your blog posts and other insights with us on Twitter, Facebook, or by email (c.fleming@middleproject.org)
We ask that participants be sure to observe copyright law and reference/cite speakers and authors appropriately. Please refrain from recording extended audio and/or video of the plenary sessions.
Audio recordings of all sessions will be available following the conference, except as otherwise requested by our speakers. Please keep in mind that our presenters have invested many hours in the development of this material and copyright laws apply.
Please silence any and all noise-making electronic devices.
WiFi
Network Password
MiddleChurch RevolutionaryLove
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Presenter Biographies
Lisa Anderson is vice president of Intersectional Engagement at Auburn Theological Seminary, an initiative dedicated to equipping bold and resilient women faith leaders with the tools they need for a lifetime of prophetic social justice activism. Before coming
to Auburn, Anderson designed seminars on national and international affairs at the Church Center of the United Nations for the Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Anderson was also a leader and facilitator at Marble Collegiate Church, working specifically on behalf of the Women’s Ministry, Young Adult Ministry and the Senior Fellowship. Anderson is a graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in religion and philosophy. A trained theologian, Anderson holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Philosophy degree from Union Theological Seminary. Anderson has taught courses in black,
womanist, feminist, and LGBTQ theologies; Christian ethics; and liturgy.
The Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner is ordained in the United Methodist Church and is a graduate of Duke Divinity School. She is the Curator of The Shout: a spoken word poetry-focused arts and justice movement, which cultivates a community of diverse people committed to transforming our world. The death of Sandra Bland on July 13,
2015, rocked The Shout community, and the poets who had gone to school with Sandra demanded a response. In March of 2016, WomanPreach! Inc. honored Hannah with the Parthia Hall Justice Award, given to “a woman minister whose prophetic voice has been obvious and effective in the public arena.” Hannah writes at SoulUnbound.com and has her first curriculum, “The Shout: Finding the Prophetic Voice in Unexpected Places,” coming out from Abingdon
Press in May, 2016. Hannah has four siblings, five nieces and nephews, and counts being an example to her nieces as the most important task of her life.
Taquiena Boston is the Director of Multicultural Growth and Witness for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). She serves on the UUA’s executive Leadership Council and is a member of the Core Team that coordinates the UU Minsters Association/UUA
Beyond the Call Entrepreneurial Ministry Project. Boston’s UUA work focuses on leadership development, culture change, and social justice for congregational and community leaders engaged in intentional multicultural ministries, including faith-based
justice-making and social movement-building. Her staff group launched the Mosaic Makers Leading Vital Multicultural Congregations Conference for UU leaders in 2012. Mosaic Makers is moving toward greater collaboration with The Middle Project’s Leading Edge Multicultural/Multiracial Congregations Leadership Conference. Boston is a member of All Souls Church, Unitarian, an intentional
multiracial/multicultural congregation in Washington, DC, that has inspired her work with leaders and congregations doing intentional multicultural, justice-based ministries. She has attended every Middle Church Leading Edge Conference from the beginning through the present.
Melvin Bray is an Emmy award-winning storyteller, writer, educator, and social entrepreneur. He is an active member of multiple networks that cultivate sustainable approaches to a life of faith, including Faith Forward and Wild Goose Festival. He coedited “Faith Forward: A Dialogue on Children, Youth & a New Kind of Christianity” (Woodlake Publishing, 2013) and is coordinating author of “The Stories in Which We Find Ourselves.” Through gardening, neighboring, storytelling and convening, Melvin helps people pursue collaborative relationships in which to thrive. He resides with his wife, three kids, two dogs, and innumerable worms in the West End of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Caitlin Breedlove is the Campaign Director of Standing on the Side of Love: a campaign of the Unitarian Universalist Association. She is the former Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG), where she has co-led innovative intersectional movement-building work in the LGBTQ sector. Under Caitlin’s co-leadership, SONG built new alliances, trained a large cohort of LGBTQ organizers in the South, built a membership of over 3,000, and led countless political education processes for SONG’s constituency. Since 2003, Caitlin has been organizing and doing movement-building work in the South with communities across race, class, culture, gender, and sexuality. Caitlin is known across social justice movements as a leader, strategist, and writer connecting LGBTQ, racial, and economic
justice. Caitlin began her work in the South doing popular education and organizer training at the historic Highlander Center in Tennessee.
The Rev. Karyn Carlo, Ph.D., is a retired New York City Police Captain turned preacher, teacher, and theologian. She earned her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Union Theological Seminary. An ordained American Baptist pastor, she currently serves as adjunct faculty at New York Theological Seminary and as the Founder and Director of the Clergy, Community, Cops Project.
Chris Crass is the author of the new book Towards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter. He writes and speaks widely on anti-racist organizing, feminism for men, strategies to build visionary
movements, and creating healthy culture and leadership for progressive activism. He was a founder of the anti-racist movement building center, the Catalyst Project, and helped launch the national white anti-racist network, SURJ (Showing Up For Racial
Justice). Rooted in his Unitarian Universalist faith, he works with congregations, divinity schools, and religious leaders to build up the spiritual Left. He is also the author of Towards Collective
Liberation: anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis, and movement building strategy. He lives in Nashville, TN, with his partner and their two sons.
Deborah De La Torre has professional experience in the corporate, public, nonprofit, and faith-based sectors. Trained as a classical pianist and composer, she is the founder/former executive director of an international multi-venue art and film festival in Michigan, now in its fifteenth year, and has received numerous public awards for contributing to civic engagement. Deborah's teaching experience includes cultural studies, piano performance, and composition at the private and college levels and has worked as a church pianist, choir director, music camp director, and guest performer at various churches. Deborah judges and coordinates performance events, holds leadership roles in music teacher and composer organizations, and gives lectures and concerts around the country. Her Company, DLT Creative Productions, develops music, film, and book projects. She holds degrees from the University of Miami and Regis University in Denver.
The Rev. Dr. Miguel De La Torre serves as a professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology. He focuses on ethics within contemporary U.S. thought, specifically how religion affects race, class, and gender oppression. He specializes in applying a social
scientific approach to Latino/a religiosity within this country, Liberation theologies in the Caribbean and Latin America, and postmodern/ postcolonial social theory. De La Torre came to the U.S. as a refugee from Cuba when he was six months old. He earned his
M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and earned a Ph.D. from Temple University in social ethics. He has authored numerous books, including Reading the Bible from the Margins; Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America; and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins. He has served as a director to the Society of Christian Ethics and the American Academy of
Religion. He is vice-president of the Society of Christian Ethics.
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Bishop Yvette Flunder founded the City of Refuge United Church of Christ, a thriving inner-city congregation, in 1991 in order to unite a gospel ministry with a social ministry.
A native San Franciscan, Bishop Flunder is a third-generation preacher with roots in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). She was licensed in the COGIC and later ordained by the Bishop Walter Hawkins of Love Center Ministries. Bishop Flunder is also an
ordained Minister of the United Church of Christ and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary. In June 2003, Bishop Flunder was consecrated Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship—a multi-denominational fellowship of 110 primarily African American Christian leaders and laity representing 56 churches and faith-based organizations from all parts of the United States, Mexico, and Africa. She has received many awards for her work in the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the elderly and youth.
Lena K. Gardner is Director of Fundraising and Membership at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship. A leader in the faith community as well as a social justice champion, Lena is a co-founding member of the Black Lives Matter Minneapolis chapter. She has helped organize a host of demonstrations and vigils following the police shooting deaths of unarmed Black people around the country, including that of Minneapolis resident Jamar Clark. As a writer, Lena’s work reflects the call for justice by black leaders and community members. She graduated in 2015 with her Master of Arts in Justice and Peace Studies from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
Dr. Sharon Groves joined Auburn Seminary’s team in August 2015 as its VicePresident for Partner Engagement, where she liaises with movements, leaders, and organizations doing justice work grounded in faith and moral courage. Prior to joining Auburn’s staff, Sharon served as a Senior Fellow for Auburn Seminary working at the
intersection of faith, LGBTQ equality, and social justice, specializing in breaking down cultural barriers between those on opposing sides of the "culture wars." Sharon is the former Director of the Religion and Faith (RFP) Program at HRC, where she worked
from 2005-2014. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Maryland in 2000 and has furthered her theological education at Chicago Theological Seminary, Wesley Theological Seminary, and the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. Sharon splits her time between New York and her home in DC, where she lives with her spouse, Ann, and her mischievous puppy, YoYo.
Anurag Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Be More, a millennial-led social enterprise that aims to make real the promises of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all humans regardless of their external appearance or presentation. Be More is to human
capital as Fair Trade is to coffee, LEED is to buildings, and B Corp is to business. Be More aims to assess, train, and certify public and private corporate entities to understand and transform ingrained habits of thought that lead to errors in how institutional actors perceive, remember, reason, and make decisions regarding human
talent, potential, and abilities. Gupta has a J.D. from NYU School of Law, a Master’s in Development Studies from Cambridge, and a Bachelor’s in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from NYU. Born and bred between old Delhi and New York, Gupta has worked with social enterprises and nonprofits in Korea, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Burma, and across the U.S. He teaches yoga and mindfulness meditation in his spare time.
Vasudha Gupta has a vision of a just and collaborative society with an interest in effective communication, equitable decision-making, and inclusive policies. Vasudha is a Co-Founder of Be More, where she strategizes the implementation of Be More’s grander vision to reduce bias and disrupt racial inequities. Prior to Be More, Vasudha
was a project manager at the Port Authority of NY & NJ, where she implemented various facility improvement projects. Vasudha is a graduate of MIT Sloan and a native New Yorker.
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The Rev. Ashley Harness is a United Church of Christ minister and a communications strategist with almost a decade of experience in non-profit media work. Currently, Ashley is the Director of Communications at the Center for Progressive Renewal and also an Associate Minister at Lyndale United Church of Christ. She previously worked with Auburn Seminary’s digital organizing and media teams, providing confidential training and counsel to religious leaders seeking to use social and traditional media as a
pulpit of the 21st century. Ashley first cut her media teeth at Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications firm in the country, where she consulted for a range of non-profit
organizations across issues from international human rights and electoral political campaigns to LGBTQ equality. Ashley received her Masters of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in 2012 and her Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 2005.
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. There, she is the Executive Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center. She is the former host of “Melissa Harris-Perry,” which broadcast live on MSNBC. She is the author of the award-winning
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Harris-Perry received her B.A. degree in English from Wake Forest University and her Ph.D. degree in political science from Duke University. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Harris-Perry previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Tulane University.
The Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph.D., an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is the Director of the Micah Institute and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at New York Theological Seminary. He also serves as Assistant Pastor of Evangelism at Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. Heltzel has contributed to seven books as author or editor. He has published numerous articles in journals, such as Books & Culture, Science & Theology News, Sojourners, Political Theology, and Princeton Theological Review. Heltzel serves on the Metro Commission on the Ministry and the Anti-Racism/Pro-Reconciliation Team of the Northeastern Region, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Heltzel holds a B.A. from Wheaton College, a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He also completed course work at the University of Mississippi in Southern fiction and creative writing. These courses, combined with his childhood years in Mississippi, inform his work with a deep commitment to the power of words and music, to social justice, and
to a global movement of radical change and collective activism.
Queen Mother Imakhu is a Khametic Community Mother, healing minister, metaphysician, and ordained Interfaith minister. Queen Mother is the founder and Pastor of Sharaym Shenu True Living Water Temple. She is producer/host of the TV show, ASHE!, highlighting African diasporic culture. Queen Mother Imakhu is the founder and chief executor of AKERU MultiMedia, which reaches people worldwide
through Internet web casting, radio, recording, and print. Queen Mother’s activism was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, El Hadj Malik El Shabazz, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. She is an active member of the People's Organization for Progress. Her motto is, "In order to bring about change in the world, you must bring change to your world."
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The Rev. John Janka is a consultant to congregations and non-profits. He is an experienced trainer and coach with a focus on systems intervention, educational design, training models, staff supervision, coaching, and evaluation. He has trained, coached, and led teams in diverse settings and across racial/ethnic, generational, gender, and socio-economic lines. Janka’s experience includes strategic planning and visioning, managing change and resistance, dealing with difference, cultural diversity, human relations training, and conflict management. He is currently on the Doctor of Ministry faculty at Wesley Theological Seminary. Janka is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, the Director of Program for The Middle Project, and the Interim Minister of Membership, Care, and Pastoral Care at The Riverside Church.
Micky ScottBey Jones serves on the leadership team of Transform Network as the Director of Training and Program Development. Recently named one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World” in the Huffington Post, Micky is a ‘contemplivist’ leader and organizer who hosts and facilitates conferences, trainings and online conversations; writes and speaks on a variety of topics including burnout, race, justice, and theology from the margins; and curates contemplative spaces and activities. She is a contributor at Patheos, Medium, and Homebrewed Christianity.
The Rev. Jim Kast-Keat is the Associate Minister for Education at Middle Collegiate Church. He is a divergent thinker, an ideation specialist, a podcast machine, a LEGO enthusiast, and an aspiring minimalist. Prior to working at Middle, he helped lead ikonNYC in New York, NY, worked as a Product Designer with Sparkhouse in
Minneapolis, MN, and was a pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the creator and curator of ThirtySecondsOrLess.net, where he shares ideas and amplifies voices every day.
Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker, civil rights advocate, and interfaith leader who centers her work around the power of storytelling. She is the founding director of Groundswell at Auburn Seminary, a non-profit initiative with 80,000 members that
mobilizes people of faith for social change. She has led national campaigns responding to hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, and solitary confinement. She is a frequent political contributor on MSNBC, and her essays appear regularly on CNN, the
Washington Post, and the Huffington Post. Kaur earned degrees from Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, where she founded the Yale Visual Law Project to train students in the art of storytelling for social change. A third-generation Sikh American, Kaur is from Clovis, California where her family settled as Punjabi farmers in 1913. She lives in Los Angeles with her
filmmaking partner and husband Sharat Raju.
The Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion. Kim is the author of nine books, including Embracing the Other; Theological Reflections on “Gangnam Style”; and Contemplations from the Heart. She is the coeditor of Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice, Here I Am, and Reimagining with Christian Doctrines. She is also on the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) Board of Directors as an At-Large Director. She is a co-chair of AAR’s “Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and
Activism Group.” Kim writes for the Huffington Post, Sojourners, and EthicsDaily.com, among other publications. She is an ordained minister of word and sacrament within the PC (USA) denomination.
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Amichai Lau-Lavie is the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul and the founding director of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performer, he was hailed by Time Out New York as “Super Star of David” and an “iconoclastic mystic.” He was
also named as “one of the most interesting thinkers in the Jewish world” by The Jewish Week. He is currently a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Amichai was a Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Israel (2008-2009) and is a consultant to the Reboot Network, a member of the URJ Faculty
Team, and a fellow of the new Clergy Leadership Institute. He is the proud Abba of Alice, Ezra, and Charlotte-Hallel.
Marlin Lavanhar is the Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, OK. It is the largest Unitarian Universalist Church in America and one of the denomination’s most racially and culturally diverse congregations. In 2000, Lavanhar was called to All Souls. During his tenure the church, has grown from 1000 to more than 1800 adult members and serves 800 children and youth. In 2008, All Souls welcomed Bishop Carlton Pearson, the founder of the Azusa Conference and his predominantly African American congregation, to join what had been an essentially all “white” church. Today, All Souls offers multiple worship services weekly with a variety of styles of music, theology, and liturgy. He and the congregation have been recognized and given many awards locally and some nationally for their work for social, racial, economic, and LGBT justice at home and abroad. The church has a vision and commitment to create a thriving intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational community.
Naomi Christine Leapheart, a daughter of Detroit, is a minister, educator, organizer, and organizational consultant. She is currently a Brown, Rooks, and Evans Scholar at Lancaster Theological Seminary. She is the suburban community organizer for POWER, a multi-faith, multi-racial network of congregations working to shift power, change public policy, and do justice for the most vulnerable in Metro Philadelphia. As an anti-racism trainer for the Lancaster YWCA, Naomi delights in facilitating difficult and transformative
conversations about systemic power, race, and theology. Naomi is the creator of "In Chains We Trust," an interdisciplinary learning series on faith, race, and mass incarceration. She is an organizer with Black Lives Matter 717 and a board member of Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness, a grassroots ecumenical network of churches and institutions that promotes biblical values of justice, care of creation, and peaceful solutions to conflict.
The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a 900-member multiracial, multicultural, welcoming, and inclusive congregation in New York City. She is an activist, preacher, and fierce advocate for racial equality, economic
justice, and LGBTQ equality. Middle Church’s activism for these issues has been featured in media like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Essence magazine. She is a frequent contributor to MSNBC, where she is host of Just Faith at MSNBC.com. Jacqui co-founded The Middle Project, which trains leaders for the movement for justice. She has been adjunct professor at Wesley, Princeton and Union theological seminaries. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Jacqui is the first African-American and woman to serve as senior minister in the Collegiate Churches. She is working on a book about finding a grown-up God and is the author of 10 Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation; The Power of Stories; and the children’s book, You Are So Wonderful!
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The Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews is the director of clergy organizing for PICO National Network, a faith-based network of more than 1,200 congregations engaged in community organizing in more than 200 cities in the United States. He is the lead organizer of PICO’s Prophetic Voices Initiative, which is organizing a prophetic faith
voice leading the struggle for racial and economic inclusion in the U.S. He joined the PICO senior leadership team in January 2008. An ordained American Baptist minister, he served churches throughout California, most recently as the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church of San José from 2000-2008. A native of California, Mathews celebrates 26 years of pastoral ministry this year. Mathews is a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry degree at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California. His dissertation project is an introductory pastoral theology for pastors engaged in faith-based community organizing.
Dionne McClain-Freeney is a pianist, composer, singer, choral director, and teaching artist. She has appeared on numerous national and international stages, played in some of New York City’s most beloved churches, and accompanied a variety of artists from
Broadway, television, and the recording industry. Her award-winning musical theater compositions and arrangements (New York Musical Theatre Festival; GLAAD Media Award nominee), including the music for The Sugar Hill Sisters (book and lyrics by Bil Wright) and music and lyrics for This One Girl’s Story (book by Bil Wright), have been
featured on television and radio. In 2016, Dionne headlined Joe’s Pub and was one of the keyboardists that set the Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Electronic Keyboard Ensemble in 2013.
Allison Mickelson has sung on tour throughout the Midwest and performed in regional theatre productions including Ragtime, Hairspray, and in the title role of Mame. She presented her cabaret, “Deepest Gladness,” at Middle Church in October. For Women’s
History Month, she co-presented the cabaret, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Woman.” She is a K–12 music teacher and conductor who enjoys making music with and for others.
The Rev. Waltrina Middleton is the Founder of Cleveland Action, a human rights resource in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. She is a preacher, poet, social critic, and community organizer committed to actualizing the vision of a Beloved
Community. Recently, Rev. Middleton was recognized by Rejuvenate Magazine as one of its 40 Under 40 Professionals to Watch in Non-Profit Religious Sector. The Center for American Progress named her as one of the 16 to Watch in 2016. Last summer, she was awarded the Jonathan M. Daniels Memorial Fellowship by the Episcopal Divinity School to support a research project on the parallels between activism, arts, and lament in the Black Lives Matter Movement in the US and the anti-apartheid movement in Palestine. She received her Master’s Degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She holds fast to the principles of Ubuntu which declares, “I am because
we are. We are because God is.”
Joey Morelli is a law enforcement officer with over 25 years of experience serving as a State Police investigator. Joey comes from a police family including Joey's uncle, his son, and 2 granddaughters. Joey's first job was to investigate complaints of police brutality made by defendants and the community. Joey worked at the World Trade
Center for a Federal Task Force investigating money laundering. Joey later was a 9/11 first responder. After that, Joey became a threat assessment expert for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. Joey also coordinated efforts to assist former gang members to establish new lives through witness protection. Joey then was promoted to run District Attorney Hynes’ Command Center. Among Joey's duties, Joey was liaison to the community, the NYPD, and the
press, and was the incident commander for Homeland Security. Currently, Joey consults with Middle Collegiate Church on church safety and security.
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The Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is the Leadership Development Associate for Youth and Young Adults of Color at the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston. She resources religious leaders, supports racial justice work, and develops programs that serve UU youth and young adults of color. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she is affiliated as a community minister with First Parish in Cambridge, UU. She was a founding member of the Lucy Stone Cooperative, where she continues to serve on the board of Unitarian Universalist Community Cooperatives. She serves on the Diverse Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries Steering Committee and the UU Ministers Association Mass Bay District executive team. Worshiping at the Sanctuary Boston, singing at the Lucy Stone Co-op, and remembering to pray are some of her spiritual practices. She roots for the Wisconsin Badgers.
Teresa B. Pasquale is a trauma therapist, contemplative practice and yoga teacher, and contemplative actioner. She is a graduate of The Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation, Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training, and New York University’s School of Social Work. She is the author of two books on trauma, spirituality, and healing, and is currently working on her third—a book about spiritual pilgrimage that speaks, teaches, preaches, and offers workshops on issues of spirituality, addiction, trauma, woundedness, professional burnout, healing, reconciliation, and contemplative activism. She is co-curator of Mystic Action Camp at the Wild Goose
Festival and is on the leadership team at Transform Network.
Jardana Peacock is the founder of Embodied Leadership, a methodology that centers healing as foundational for how we organize in movements for social justice across the world. A long-time healing, justice, and cultural organizer based in the Southeast, her
work at the Anne Braden Institute and Highlander Center helped her develop her integrated approach to healing and social justice movement building. She helped found SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) and served on the leadership team. Anne Braden and Ella Baker are movement mentors who guide her. She recently released an e-book, Heal Myself, Heal the World: Practices for Liberation, and has been featured in the Huffington Post and other online publications. She has studied traditional yoga and holistic healing for over fifteen years and has worked with hundreds of change-maker clients around the world.
Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., is Founder of islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency. He has a B.A. from Columbia, and an M.T.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard. His research focuses on Muslims and American popular culture. He writes and speaks about music, comics, movies, and the blogistan. Hussein has appeared in mainstream media, including CNN, Channel 4 (UK), Al-Jazeera America, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been published in On Faith (Washington Post), Belief Blog (CNN), On Being, and The Revealer. He is a fellow with The Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship, the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, and the Truman National Security Project. He is a contingent faculty member most often associated with Hofstra University and has taught at Fordham University, Virginia Theological Seminary, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, SUNY Old Westbury, and Barnard College.
Holly Roach is president of the board and a co-founder of Transform Network. She is a ‘contemplavist’ with activist roots in numerous social justice movements, including the struggles for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Big Mountain, AZ, nonviolence training, anti-oppression, art activism, and the Global Justice movement. She is an organizer for the Faith-Rooted Organizing Un-Network and is mentored by The Rev. Alexia Salvatierra. She produces several large gatherings each year. Holly has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Social Change and graduated in August 2015 from the inaugural class of Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action and Contemplation. Holly is a practicing writer and mother to no less than 200 pounds of dogs.
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Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward's personal mission is to empower leaders of all ages to grow spiritually while making social change. Her work has included ministry, community organizing, writing, teaching, training, coaching, and non-profit management. Currently, she serves as a national faith organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), as Assistant Professor of Transformative Leadership at Starr King School for the Ministry, as Program Director at All Souls Unitarian Church in Manhattan, and as an independent consultant working with change-makers around the world. She is a proud member of Middle Church and its gospel choir.
Candace Simpson is a second-year M.Div. student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a Brooklyn native, a sister, and a teacher with a passion for community organizing and teaching. She attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, majoring in Educational Studies. After graduating in 2012, she became a co-teaching apprentice through the Urban Teaching Corps, a cohort-based teacher preparation program designed for teachers of color who intend to stay in the field of education. Her most recent project was serving as site coordinator for the Concord Freedom School, a summer literacy-based enrichment program for children in Bedford-Stuyvesant, based out of her home church Concord Baptist Church of Christ. She is a tutor and mentor, lovingly referred to as “Ms. Candace” by her younger friends. She blogs for the Black women’s blogging collective "For Harriet" on race, gender, faith, and protest.
The Rev. Mykal O’Neal Slack is the founder and lead organizer of 4LYFE (Live Your Faith Everyday), an ecumenical, consultative ministry of Metropolitan Community Churches that develops anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks for church life and provides pastoral resources to address sexual orientation and gender identity issues in faith communities of all kinds. He is also on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh as their first Director of Congregational Life, where his focus is on newcomer welcome, membership, community building, and communications. Currently, Mykal is serving as both a Beatitudes Society Fellow and a Movement Fellow for the Southeast House of Soulforce for 2015-2016. Mykal also sits on the Advisory Council and Content Development Working Group for the Center for African-American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice. Mykal shares a home with his lovely spouse, LeLaina Romero, in Durham, NC.
The Rev. Adriene Thorne is an Executive Minister at Middle Collegiate Church. She completed her Master of Divinity degree with an emphasis in art and psychology at The Pacific School of Religion. Prior to ministry, she pursued a nearly 20-year career in the performing arts, including time as a Rockette. Thorne served the Reformed Church in America’s Commission on Christian Worship for three years and was the Visiting Artist at New Brunswick Theological Seminary from 2010–2011. Her key assertion is that the arts have the ability to drop us into the center of ourselves and our healing more quickly than anything else. Thorne is married to Colin St. Rose and together they are raising a little girl named Petal.
Jim Wallis is a New York Times bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics and public life. He recently served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and was former vice chair of the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. Jim is the author of 12 books, including his most recent, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America. He is president and founder of Sojourners, where he is also editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. His columns appear in major newspapers, including Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. He frequently appears as a commentator on television shows such as Meet the Press, Hardball, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The O’Reilly Factor. He has taught at Harvard University, Georgetown University, and other academic institutions.
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The Rev. Melinda Weekes-Laidlow is the President of Weekes In Advance Enterprises, an organizational development firm that offers consulting, coaching, and professional development services in social innovation, racial equity, and collaborative leadership spaces. Recently, Melinda served as the Managing Director for Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation; as publisher of the news website Colorlines; and as presenter of Facing Race, the nation's largest multi-racial, multidisciplinary, inter-generational gathering on racial justice. Melinda has also worked as a Senior Associate for the Interaction Institute for Social Change, building the capacity of individuals, communities, and networks towards more effective collaboration and inclusivity. A member of the ordained clergy, she serves on the ministerial staff of the Greater Allen Cathedral of New York. Melinda holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Harvard University, and New York University School of Law.
The Rev. Dr. Traci C. West is Professor of Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School in New Jersey, where she teaches both seminary and Ph.D. students. She is the author of Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter (Westminster/John Knox, 2006), Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics (New York University Press, 1999), and editor of Our Family Values: Religion and Same-sex Marriage (Praeger, 2006). She has published articles on clergy ethics, racism, sexual ethics, and other justice issues in church and society. She is an ordained minister in the United Methodist church and previously served in parish and campus ministry in the Hartford Connecticut area.
Jamye Wooten is a faith-rooted organizer, digital strategist, and 2016 New Maryland Economy Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies. Jamye is the founder of Kinetics Communications and publishing editor of KineticsLive.com, an information ministry that integrates theological reflection and practice and uses dialogue as a catalyst for social change. In the Fall of 2015, he launched the #BlackChurchSyllabus, providing resources that help cultivate a deeper theological framework to pursue justice. In April 2015, Jamye co-founded Baltimore United for Change, a coalition of grassroots organizations in Baltimore City that organized in response to the death of #FreddieGray. Jamye has organized and documented social movements from across the United States, United Kingdom and Africa. He is the former program director of the Collective Banking Group, Inc. (CBG), a Christian ministry that draws together leaders from the faith, business, and public service sectors to develop and enhance economic empowerment strategies for the African American community.
Bil Wright is an award-winning novelist and playwright. His novels include Putting
Makeup on the Fat Boy (Lambda Literary Award and American Library Association Stonewall Book Award), the highly acclaimed When the Black Girl Sings (Junior Library Guild selection), and the critically acclaimed Sunday You Learn How to Box. His plays include Bloodsummer Rituals, based on the life of poet Audre Lorde (Jerome Fellowship), and Leave Me a Message (San Diego Human Rights Festival premiere). He is the Librettist for This One Girl’s Story (GLAAD nominee) and the winner of a LAMI (La Mama Playwriting Award).
BETTY is a five-piece pop rock band fronted by Elizabeth Ziff, Alyson Palmer, and Amy Ziff. Bonded since an unfortunate incarceration, BETTY began as an edgy a’cappella/spoken word/techno-beat trio in Washington, DC. They have gone on to perform in clubs, theatres, and arenas all over the world. BETTY’s national tour of their hit OffBroadway show, BETTY RULES (directed by Michael “Rent” Greif), their controversial theme song for Showtime Television’s The L Word, and their acting appearances on that program have catapulted this deeply beloved cult band to wilder international recognition. Activist entertainers, the band is known for fighting fiercely for what they believe: equal rights, feminism, finding cures for breast cancer and AIDS, Planned Parenthood, the Pro-Choice movement, an end to sexual violence and everybody’s inalienable right to safely dance naked in the streets.
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Area Restaurants
1 Angelica Kitchen – Organic vegetarian
300 E. 12th St. (bet. Second and First)
212-228-2909 – Lunch, Dinner daily
2 B&H Dairy – Kosher vegetarian diner
127 Second Ave. (bet. 7th and St. Mark’s)
212-505-8065 – Open all day
3 Brick Lane Curry House – Indian
99 Second Ave. (bet. 5th and 6th)
212-979-8787 – Lunch–Dinner daily
4 Café Mocha – Coffee bar and light food
116 Second Ave. (corner of 7th)
212-253-1046 – Open all day
5 Chipotle – Mexican Fast Food
19 St. Mark’s Place (bet. Third and Second)
212-529-6655 – Lunch, Dinner daily
6 Dallas BBQ – Local barbecue chain
132 Second Ave. (corner St. Mark’s Pl.)
212-777-5574 – Lunch, Dinner daily
7 Fresco Gelateria – Coffee bar, pastries, panini, soups, salads, gelato!
138 Second Ave. (bet. St. Mark’s and 9th)
212-677-6320 – Open all day
8 La Palapa – Eclectic Mexican
77 St. Mark’s Place (bet. Second and First) 212-
777-2537 – Lunch, Dinner daily
9 Luke’s Lobster – Seafood rolls
93 E. 7th St. (bet. First and A)
212-387-8487 – Open all day
10 The Mermaid Inn – Seafood
96 Second Ave. (bet. 5th and 6th)
212-674-5870 – Dinner daily
11 Mighty Quinn’s – Wood-fired barbecue
103 Second Ave. (corner of 6th)
212-677-3733 – Lunch–Dinner daily
12 Pangea – Eclectic American
178 Second Ave. (bet. 11th and 12th)
212-995-0900 – Lunch, Dinner daily
13 Paul’s Burgers – Burgers
131 Second Ave. (bet. 7th and St. Mark’s)
212-529-3033 – Open all day
14 Pylos – Greek
128 E. 7th St. (bet. First and A)
212-473-0220 – Lunch, Dinner daily
15 San Marzano – Inexpensive pastas and panini
117 Second Ave. (corner 7th)
212-777-3600 – Lunch, Dinner daily
16 St. Mark’s Market – Deli counter and salad bar
21 St. Mark’s Pl. (bet. Third and Second)
212-253-7777 – Open all day
17 Spice – Thai
71 First Ave. (bet. 4th and 5th)
212-253-2742 – Lunch, Dinner daily
18 Starbucks – Coffee and WiFi
145 Second Ave. (corner 9th)
212-780-0027 – Open all day
19 Stromboli – New York Pizza by the slice
83 St. Mark’s Pl. (corner First)
212-673-3691 – Open all day
20 Veselka – Ukrainian diner
144 Second Ave. (corner 9th)
212-228-9682 – Open all day
21 Via Della Pace – Italian
48 E. 7th St. (bet. Second and First)
212-253-5803 – Lunch, Dinner daily
22 Virage – Mediterranean
118 Second Ave. (corner 7th)
212-253-0425 – Lunch–Dinner daily
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Top Things to Do in New York City
• Take a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Ride the Staten Island Ferry and wave at Lady Liberty—free!
• Ride the elevator to the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center for a great view of the city, including the Empire State Building and Central Park.
• Get discounted theater tickets from TKTS or BroadwayBox.com and
enjoy a Broadway show.
• Listen to jazz at Jazz Standard or Iridium.
• Stroll around Central Park—ride the carousel and visit the zoo.
• Browse 18 miles of books at Strand Book Store.
• Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, or the American Museum of Natural History.
• Go people watching in Tompkins Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, Madison Square Park, or Times Square.
• Walk the High Line and visit Chelsea Market.
• Visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and have a pastrami
sandwich at Katz’s Delicatessen.
• Visit two of the architectural wonders of New York City on 42nd Street: The New York Public Library Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and
Grand Central Terminal at Park Avenue.
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ABOUT Vision
Middle Collegiate Church is a celebrating, culturally diverse, inclusive and growing community of faith where all persons are welcomed just as they are as they come through the door. Rooted in Christian tradition as the oldest continuous Protestant Church in North America, Middle Church is called by God to boldly do a new thing on the earth.
As a teaching congregation that celebrates the arts, our ministries include rich and meaningful worship, care, and education that nurture the mind, body, and spirit, social action which embraces the global community, and participation in interfaith dialogue for the purpose of justice and reconciliation.
History
The Collegiate Church of New York is an ecumenical church affiliated with the Reformed Church in America denomination and the National and World Council of Churches. The Collegiate Church was born in the new world on April 7, 1628, with the arrival of an ordained minister, Dominic Jonas Michaelius, and the selection of the first Consistory, making it the oldest Protestant body in America with a continuous history of service.
In May 1696, King William III of England granted a Royal Charter to the Collegiate Church of New York City—a virtual guarantee of religious autonomy to this Dutch church—which makes it the oldest corporation in the United States today. Currently, there are five ministries of the Collegiate Church: Fort Washington Church, Marble Church, Middle Church, West End Church, and Intersections International.
Today Middle Collegiate Church continues to be inspired by its rich history as it dreams God’s dreams, and offers a welcoming, artistic, inclusive, and bold expression of faith in action in the city, across the nation, and around the globe.
Middle Church is Powered by God. Powered by Love. Powered by You.
Learn more at middlechurch.org
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ABOUT Mission
The Middle Project prepares ethical leaders for a just society.
Summary
The Middle Project convenes leaders from many disciplines, professions, and fields who are committed to pursuing the common good from a progressive perspective, motivated by a sense of justice and concern for those on the margins: the poor, the working poor, and those who are marginalized by race, class, or gender/sexual injustice. We unite progressive leaders who are ready for a revolutionary and prophetic way of using power, information, and resources to act locally and think globally to heal the human family. We find our strength and approach from the progressive faith traditions that have played a major role in this nation’s greatest democratic achievements: the abolition of slavery, civil rights, universal suffrage, and the anti-war movement. We seek to use this strength to bring together, in a common enterprise, progressives who have tended to work in independent silos of thought and action in order to develop and support a network of scholars, practitioners, and leaders who are committed to, and capable of, creating and acting on a deeper understanding of what constitutes the common good.
The Middle Project comprises five principal components:
1) Education and Training
2) Theological and Ethical Reflection
3) Research
4) Resource Development
5) Communications and Networking
Every component of The Middle Project focuses on theological reflection from the perspective of the marginalized; the integration of progressive thinking from many disciplines; the use of the arts; and the building of networks and partnerships among diverse leaders who share a commitment to create a world in which the needs and strengths of all people are accorded equal respect and support.
Learn more at middleproject.org
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Middle Church Media
Plenary Podcasts Plenary sessions from The Leading Edge 2016: Revolutionary Love will be available as free podcasts. There are two ways to listen to the podcasts:
1. Subscribe to The Leading Edge podcast feed on iTunes.
2. Listen on The Middle Project podcast page: middleproject.org/category/podcasts
Worship Celebration Videos
To view and share video of the Morning Worship Celebration and Art & Soul Evening Worship Celebration as well as an archive of excerpts from previous worship celebrations, please visit:
• MiddleProjectMedia YouTube channel
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdOK082eVSUHZ4iIaJ5U4xw)
• Middle Church YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MiddleNYC)
Music
Welcome — Featuring the music of Tituss Burgess and the Middle Community Chorus. CDs may be purchased at the Middle Bookstore or by contacting middleinfo@middlechurch.org. Also available at iTunes from Middle Church Music.
Celebration — Featuring the music of the Middle Church Choir and celebrating the legacy of Jonathan Dudley, choir director for more than 30 years. CDs may be purchased at the Middle Bookstore or by contacting middleinfo@middlechurch.org.
Books
The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multiracial and Multicultural Congregations by The Rev. Dr. Jacqueline J. Lewis — In this book Lewis shares examples of congregational leaders who have successfully overcome the challenges of leading multicultural congregations, and the lessons that can be learned from them. Available at the Middle bookstore and at Amazon.com
Ten Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation, Revised Edition by The Rev. Dr. Jacqueline J. Lewis — A practical guide featuring tools, activities, and worksheets to help clergy and lay leaders build multiracial and multicultural communities of faith. One copy included in the conference binder; available for purchase at the Middle Bookstore at a special conference discount or contact middleinfo@middlechurch.org for bulk orders.
You Are So Wonderful! by Jacqueline J. Lewis; illustrated by Jeremy Tugeau — PreSchool — In simple, rhyming text, this title celebrates the uniqueness of people. Brightly colored, full-page illustrations depict an urban environment with a diverse cast of characters of various ages, sizes, races, and abilities. Available at Amazon.com
Ten Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation
The Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis
REVISED E DITION
The RACE
problem?
We’re not finished!
Join us for the 11th annual Leading Edge Conference
April 28–30, 2017
Don’t miss the Early Bird rate!!!
Register now at middleproject.org/conference-2017
Wedding Poem – To Jacqui, my love and joy.
No resting on plateaus for us, not while the unknown awaits.
Spreading wings, spirit wind lifts us in silhouette against the sky.
We are giddy as children, barefoot, innocent, laughter the only sound drifting on the air, echoes off city walls.
It is as though God has stepped out in broad daylight to play with us.
We make jazz together, our two journeys converged improbably, crisscrossing the landscape, to make new music that fills the canyons of lost time and draws the angels out of hiding. Our improvisation makes them smile and they tap their wings to the beat and we pass the plate.
Fugitive Love now leaps the borders and changes everything. We are witnesses to its reckless rampaging and we don’t hide ourselves in subtleties even if we could.
Traversing the hard ground of emptiness, love on the lam will stay with us for as long as it takes.
And malevolent ghosts, cowards in the face of faith, scatter when they see us coming. We break the rules.
Doubters step aside and let believers state their hopes.
John Janka, Copyright © 2005
Valarie Kaur and I have been talking about Revolutionary Love. She is married to a wonderful man named Sharat and has a boy named Kavi.
Kavi is the most lovely little boy—full of light and peace. Valarie’s starting place for Revolutionary Love is in her heart for her family. Out of that heart overflows healing love that inspires her filmmaking, her activism, and her speaking.
I don’t have a child, as you know. And for a long time that child-less space really ached to be filled in a way that I thought nothing else could. I grieved the emptiness, and questioned my choices. Should I have tried to make a child sooner? Should I have changed the pace of my life to make more room?
I can’t tell you the day or time, but there has been a huge healing and that space no longer feels empty. It is filled now with so much goodness. The love of the children in my life—R.J., Rio, and the children at Middle.
The love I have for my younger adult friends, my sibs, and my parents. The love I have for the work I am blessed to do. This love has been revolutionary for me; it has changed me.
Revolutionary Love is a powerful force.
To heal wounds, to reconcile brokenness.
One source of it in my life is John. When we married almost 11 years ago, John wrote this wedding poem for me. In his love, I feel safe to dream my highest dreams. I am at once comforted, encouraged, and challenged.
I am seen, held, known, and heard.
Therefore I risk, I trust, I try. I fall. I get up.
Revolutionary Love is the petri dish in which I grow.
You are loved, Middle Family. By the clergy and staff here at Middle Church. We are imperfect and might fail you. But if we do, we will want a fresh start to hold you, hug you, and pray with you. You are loved, Middle Family, in a revolutionary way, by a God who will never leave you, never forsake you. Who loves you just as you are, and from whom you need never hide.
Revolutionary Love Celebration! Worship
Sundays at 11:15 am
Watch live on middlechurch.org
APRIL 3
“God, From A to Z”
Revelation 1.4–8
Adriene Thorne, preacher
In-the-Middle Choir
Communion
APRIL 10
“Who Are You??”
Acts 9.1–6
Jim Kast-Keat, preacher
Middle Church Choir
Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir
APRIL 17
Revolutionary Love Conference Sunday
9:30 am & 11:15 am
“Do YOU Want a Revolution?”
Revelation 7.9–17
Jacqui Lewis, preacher
Middle Church Choir
Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir Rod Rodgers Dance Company
APRIL 24
“Then I Remembered
Something New”
Acts 11.1–18
Rob Stephens, guest preacher
Middle Church Choir
Special Worship
Art & Soul Worship
April 17 at 5:00 pm
Revolutionary Love
Conference Sunday
Bishop Yvette Flunder, preacher
Music from pop rock band
BETTY (Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff, and Elizabeth Ziff)
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church.
May the Revolutionary Love of our God be the petri dish in which you grow fully to be you.
To love you. To love others. This kind of love can change the world.
Mwah—Big Kiss—Jacqui
The Newsletter of Middle Collegiate Church middle notes
APRIL 2016
On the 51st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in early March, 18 Middle Church congregants and staff embarked on a three-day tour of historic Civil Rights sites in Atlanta, Georgia; and Montgomery and Selma, Alabama.
“The entire experience was extraordinary—being in Georgia and Alabama, reliving familiar scenes from the past, seeing the real places that I’ve only seen in pictures—it’s hard to describe such a total experience. Without even closing my eyes I am suddenly back on the Edmund Pettus Bridge or in a pew at Ebenezer Baptist Church, or watching the events unfold on the bus with Rosa Parks. Pure heightened reality.” —Beth Ellor
“Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge caused me to pause and reflect on the history of Bloody Sunday. It was such an important part of Civil Rights history, yet most of the people there live below poverty level. What impacted me most was how willing the local residents were to share their food, hearts and stories.” —Joey Morelli
“In so many ways it was gut wrenching—to be reminded of the despicable incidents and attitudes lived through and internalized as a youth; to revisit the swell of hope and inspiration in seeing and hearing the voices of the renowned leaders hell-bent on bringing change into our world; to release the tears of pain in remembering the loss of great minds and courageous beings. And then there was the uplift watching the faces and hearing the reflections of our young adult participants, which turned heartache into smiles of comfort as they ‘got it,’ and one could look forward to handing over the baton to twirl on their terms, to make their difference.” —Danita Branam
“The Civil Rights Tour was truly an AMAZING experience! I thought I knew a lot of this history but I learned a great deal and seeing the places in person truly made what I did know much more real. The museums were really interesting and we had docents that were not only knowledgeable but shared personal stories and were so passionate about what they were telling us that you couldn’t help but be moved! At the risk of sounding cliché, I do feel changed by what we saw and heard. It’s a trip I don’t think Jonah or I will ever forget—and I feel so blessed to have been able to experience it with my son.” —Kelly Smith
It was a multigenerational family affair as we visited the King Center in downtown Atlanta, including the neighborhood of MLK’s childhood home and church, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. In Montgomery, a city where slaves were sold on the main street and the bus boycott ignited the Civil Rights movement, we relived Rosa Parks courage, as we visited the Rosa Parks Museum. We honored the lives risked and lost at the Civil Rights Museum and the Freedom Rides Museum. Some congregants toured the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church, where King served—just blocks from Wallace, and the state capitol—and the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church Parsonage, the house where the King family lived. On our final day, we visited the Brown Chapel AME Church, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Memorial for Viola Liuzzo and the City of St. Jude. And we Skyped from the National Voting Rights Interpretive Center in Lowndes County, Alabama to offer the Prayer of Thanksgiving during Sunday morning worship at Middle Church. Watch for announcements about our next trip!
Christina Fleming is Director of Outreach and Communications at Middle Collegiate Church.
In the Footsteps of Heroes BY CHRISTINA FLEMING
Help us meet our goal!
Marianne Williamson at Middle Church. Every. Week.
New York Times bestselling author, Marianne Williamson, brings her weekly lecture series to Middle Church beginning Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 pm.
Her teachings are based on A Course in Miracles. The cost is $20 at the door. The lectures will be livestreamed from our sanctuary. For livestreaming and other details, visit Marianne.com.
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual
author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on
programs such as Just Faith, Oprah, and Charlie Rose. Six of her 11
published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Her book
A Return to Love is a classic. We are ecstatic to host Marianne Williamson at Middle Church every week.
Marianne Williamson
Partnership Update
As of March 25, we are at 73% of our program year, which ends
June 30. Together we have raised 60% of our offering goal--
$342,464.30 toward $575,000.
Friends, Middle Church is powered by God, by Love and
by You! Together we can power our programs and ministry.
Please help us make our goal by setting up a recurring donation
in the “donate” section of middlechurch.org. If 200 of us enroll
in recurring donations of $20 a week, that would raise,
$212,000 a year. Won’t you give $12, $20, $60, $100, or $500?
Thank you for your generous support of our welcoming, artistic,
inclusive and bold ministry. Love.Period. is what Middle
Church it is all about.
60%
April
Check middlechurch.org for full details of all events.
Sundays
• Butterfly Meal Preparation – 9:00 & 10:00 am • Social Hall
• Wee Care (under age 4) – 9:30 am–2:30 pm • 3rd Floor Wee Care
• The Breakfast Club (Gr. 7–12) – 10:00–11:00 am • 4th Floor Studio
• Family Breakfast – APR 3 – 10:00–11:00 am • 4th Floor Studio
• In-the-Middle Choir – APR 3 – 10:00–10:45 am • 3rd Floor Studio
• CELEBRATION! WORSHIP: Revolutionary Love Conference – APR
17 – 9:30 am • Sanctuary – Come at 9:30 to avoid the 11:15 crowds!
• CELEBRATION! WORSHIP – 11:15 am–12:30 pm • Sanctuary
• The Ark (Gr. K–6) – on hiatus — resumes May 1
• Chat & Chew – 12:30 pm • Social Hall
• Butterfly Meal Distribution – 12:30 pm • Meet at Social Hall
• Village Chorus (Ages 6–14) – 1:00–2:30 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
• Adult Ed: Reading the Bible from the Middle – APR 3, 10, 24 –
1:15–2:30 pm • Sanctuary
• Adult Ed: Third Sunday Being Groups – APR 17 – 1:15–2:30 pm • Watch conference session in Social Hall
• Clothing Boutique – APR 3, 17 – 1:30–4:00 pm • Community Room
• Food Pantry – APR 10, 24 – 1:30–3:00 pm • Community Room
• Young Adult Gathering – APR 24 – 1:00–3:00 pm • See Christina!
• Memorial for Fred Holland – APR 10 – 3:30–5:00 pm • Sanctuary
• ART & SOUL WORSHIP: Revolutionary Love Conference – APR 17
– 5:00–6:00 pm • Sanctuary
• AA/Big Book Meeting – 7:00–8:00 pm • 4th Floor Studio
Mondays
• Acting Class – 6:30–8:00 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
• NA/Village Spiritual Workshop – 6:30–7:30 pm • 4th Floor Classroom
• Gospel Choir Workshop – APR 4 – 7:00–9:00 pm • Community Room
• Meditation on the Lower East Side – 7:00–8:30 pm • Parlor
Tuesdays
• Middle Consistory Meeting – APR 19 – 6:00–9:00 pm • Parlor
• Alateen – 7:00–8:00 pm • 4th Floor Classroom
• AA/Artists in Recovery – 7:00–8:00 pm • 4th Floor Studio
• AA/Step Meeting – 7:00–8:00 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
• Al-Anon – 7:30–9:00 pm • Community Room
• AA/Closed Discussion – 8:30–9:30 pm • 4th Floor Studio
Wednesdays
• Marianne Williamson – APR 27 – 7:30–9:00 pm • Sanctuary • $20
Thursdays
• Debtors Anonymous – 12:30–1:30 pm • 4th Floor Classroom
• Creative Writing – 6:30–8:00 pm • 4th Floor Studio
• MCJJ Gospel Choir Rehearsal – 7:00–8:30 pm
• Al-Anon – 7:30–9:00 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
Fridays
• CONFERENCE 2016: Revolutionary Love Begins! – APR 15 – 1:00 pm
• Shul of NY Shabbat Services – APR 1, 15 – 6:30–8:30 pm • Social Hall
• NA/It’s About Change — 6:30–8:00 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
• AA/Young and Wise Group – 8:00–9:00 pm • Community Room
• NA/Finally Found a Home — 8:30–9:30 pm • 4th Floor Studio
• Pub Theology – APR 15 – 9:00–10:30 pm • Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E. 7th
Saturdays
• NA/Meat and Potatoes – 6:30–8:00 pm • Community Room
• AA/Beginners – 7:00–8:00 pm • 3rd Floor Studio
• AA/Open Discussion – 7:00–8:00 pm • 4th Floor Studio
• CONCERT TO FEED THE HUNGRY – APR 9 – 7:00 pm • Sanctuary
• NA/SRA – 8:00–9:30 pm • 5th Floor Parlor
• AA/Closed Discussion – 8:30–9:30 pm • 4th Floor Studio
Concert to Feed the Hungry
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Fred Hersch, percussionist
Rogério Boccato, singer/songwriter Becca Stevens, and the Colombian folkloric ensemble La Cumbiamba eNeYé will headline the fifth annual Concert to Feed the Hungry at Middle
Church. Funds raised from the concert will support the Buddhist
Global Relief, which combats hunger worldwide in regions ranging
from Cambodia to Ethiopia to New York City. Ten percent of the funds raised will go to support Middle Church’s feeding programs—Food
Pantry (free groceries) and Butterfly (free brownbag
lunches for people in local parks). Tickets are $25 or $15 with
a student ID. For tickets, visit www.concerttofeedthehungry.org.
Young Adults
Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 1:00–4:00 pm
Young adults (age 20–40ish) and alums of the Middle Project
Leadership Initiative for Young Adults are invited to gather with
Jacqui Lewis, John Janka, and Christina Fleming. We will share
lunch and deepen relationships. Rsvp to Christina at cfleming@
middlechurch.org and the location of the event will be emailed
to you a few days before.
Middle-in-the-World Middle family, here are all the ways you share Love.Period.
• The Village Chorus for Children and Youth performed with Hugh Jackman at a private event at Joe’s Pub.
• The Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir performed at Carnegie Hall during the Christmas holidays.
• Upworthy’s “Love Conquers All—Even Candidates with Swoopy Hair who Call People Names” celebrated the online love letter to Muslims co-written by Jacqui Lewis and signed online by our congregation and thousands of people of faith.
• French Morning’s “Seven Churches without Tourists for Listening to Gospel in New York” still draws French tourists to Sunday worship: “Middle Church is string of surprises: lyrical choir, organ, singer with a soprano or ballerina in half-classical
half-contemporary choreography. The rainbow gospel choir has 40 people, guided by an enraptured conductor.”
• Blogs “Revolutionary Love: Dismantling Hierarchy and Pushing
Boundaries” in Patheos and “Confessing Jesus’ Name
Means Confessing Revolutionary Love” by Jacqui Lewis were
featured in Sojourners Magazine’s blogs at sojo.net. Patheos
shared “Dismantling Racism: A Q&A with Jacqui Lewis.”
• BroadwayWorld.com covered our Women’s History Month
cabaret, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Woman”
with Branch Woodman and Allison Mickelson.
• Middle Church launched “That’ll Preach,” a weekly podcast
discussing upcoming sermons in the blogs section of middlechurch.com—curated and produced by Jim Kast-Keat.
• Just Faith, the MSNBC.com show on social justice and spirituality hosted by Jacqui Lewis, is on hiatus. Follow Middle Church and Jacqui Lewis on Facebook and Twitter for the
latest updates.
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Essays and Blogs on Race
One Day, When the Glory Comes, It Will Be Ours
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at HuffPost Religion, April 28, 2015 — Last night, as a straight Black ally, I attended a United4Marriage equality rally in Times Square anticipating the Supreme Court hearings today. Before I spoke, a religious leader hissed, “Read your Bible!” I said, “I read my Bible in Hebrew, Greek, and in English!” What in the hell is going on? Why is that the question?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-rev-jacqueline-j-lewis-phd/one-day-when-the-glory-comes-it-will-beours_b_7164160.html
A Note from Charleston
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at Sojourners, June 23, 2015 — We felt like we had to be there. Five women, who were all at the Sojourners’ Summit in Washington, D.C., white and black, straight and gay — Lindsay, Holly, Sharon, Melinda, and I — we felt like we HAD to go. We needed each other, and we needed our special powers that can exist only together, to grieve and heal and find hope.
https://sojo.net/articles/note-charleston
Honoring the Charleston nine: Today, we mourn. Tomorrow, we organize.
Valarie Kaur at The Washington Post, June 29, 2015 — Gunshots in a sanctuary of peace. Cries of terror where people sing God’s name. Blood in the prayer hall. A community shaken by hate but coming together to sing, pray and forgive even before they’ve laid the dead to rest. This is what happened three years ago in Oak Creek, Wis., when a white supremacist opened fire in a Sikh house of worship on a Sunday morning and killed six people. It was one of the deadliest attacks on a faith community in the United States since the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that took four little girls – until Charleston.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of faith/wp/2015/06/29/honoring-the-charleston-nine-todaywe-mourn-tomorrow-we-organize/This Is Our Selma Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II at HuffPost Religion, July 13, 2015 — In 2006 the U.S. Senate unanimously voted to re-authorize the prized 1964 Voting Rights Act and President George W. Bush signed it. After the first Black President won two elections, five U.S. Supreme Court justices over-ruled 98 senators and gutted the law. Their ruling, called Shelby, two years ago opened the floodgates, giving the green light to state legislators throughout the South. One North Carolina state senator even declaring that Shelby had removed the “headache” of pre-clearance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii/this-is-our-selma_b_7780748.html
I Am Gay and I Am Black Lives Matter Bishop Gene Robinson at HuffPost Religion, July 13, 2015 — Walking up to the makeshift memorial, set up along the center line of the quiet street, I knew that I was on holy ground. Teddy bears, wilted flowers and notes on small scraps of paper told me that this was a place where tears were shed and hearts poured out. I felt quiet, respectful and a little like an intruder on this quiet Ferguson, Missouri street, surrounded by modest apartment houses.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bishop-gene-robinson/i-am-gay-and-i-am-black-l_b_7788700.html
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I Am a White Christian and Black Lives Matter Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph. D. at HuffPost Religion, July 16, 2015 — America’s heart is broken because of the heinous racial murders and devastating church burnings in southern states. As a white southern Christian transplanted in New York City, I recognize the sociology of white supremacy leading to these devastating crimes and stand firmly against the actions of the perpetrators.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-goodwin-heltzel/i-am-a-white-christian-and-black-livesmatter_b_7776414.html?1437073833
I Am Muslim and I Am Black Lives Matter Linda Sarsour at HuffPost Religion, July 16, 2015 — Black lives don’t matter. We need to own that as the current reality for millions of Black Americans. Every 28 hours a police officer, security guard, or Zimmerman-type vigilante kills a Black person, most of who are unarmed. Black children can be kicked out of pools and physically harassed by police while their white counterparts watch. Black women can be murdered, raped, beat with utter silence from the general public.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-sarsour/i-am-muslim-and-i-amblac_b_7802988.html?utm_hp_ref=religion
I Am Jewish and Black Lives Matter Rabbi Stephanie Kolin at HuffPost Religion, July 17, 2015 — On a recent cross-country drive, I stood where James Earl Ray stood when he killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, TN. I put my feet where his feet had been and I cast my gaze across the street, to the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. I imagined Dr. King standing there - a man who not only embodied a community, but a movement, an insistent dream, and a charge to our country to be better than we were. I felt a shiver run through me as I tried to see through the eyes of James Earl Ray, a man who was willing to kill another person in order to kill a dream.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-stephanie-kolin/i-am-jewish-and-black-livesmatter_b_7807022.html
I Am Black, and Black Lives Matter Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at HuffPost Religion, August 10, 2015 — There was a sense of urgency in this call. I was on the phone with a multiracial group of faith leaders—Christians, Muslims, Jews, Unitarian Universalists—strategizing about what to do about the Black churches burning in the south. While all of us were outraged at the fires, while each of us represented networks and institutions fiercely engaged in the work of dismantling racism and white supremacy, this call was prompted by the passion of my friend, Linda Sarsour. She is a Palestinian-American Muslim, a BlackLivesMatter activist, and a straight shooter who minces no words.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-rev-jacqueline-j-lewis-phd/i-am-black-and-blacklive_b_7773100.html?1436785746#handsup: Support the End Racial Profiling Act
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at HuffPost Religion, August 10, 2015 — When Mike Brown was killed one year ago, in the midst of tears and grief we prayed with our hands up, as tempers flared and fires burned.
When we saw Eric Garner die on camera, it took our breath away. When Sandy Bland died in custody, we saw the lethal consequences of racism behind bars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-rev-jacqueline-j-lewisphd/handsup-support-the-endr_b_7966918.html?1439235372
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Being Brown While Black Lives Matter Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre at Our Lucha, August 29, 2015 — Yes – black lives matter. But for centuries they haven’t. Killing black folk was considered sport, as documented by early twentieth century souvenir postcards of lynchings, where good Christians looked into the camera as that “strange fruit” swung from the trees behind them. The police, with a history to “protect and serve” whites from the menace of blacks, could always kill blacks with impunity. Black lives never mattered in this country, nor do they now – a point made clear as I read of the latest young black man shot in the back by law enforcers who feared for their lives.
https://ourlucha.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/being-brown-while-black-lives-matter/Hope in the Unexpected Common Ground: Moving Past Hatred
Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson at Patheos, October 13, 2015 — Last week, when my colleagues and I learned of the shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, there was an emotion that none of us expressed. Yes, we expressed our grief, outrage, sadness, and frustration over yet another mass shooting that is one of nearly 300 that have occurred across our country since January—less than one year's time.
http://www.patheos.com/Topics/Hope-in-the-Unexpected-Common-Ground-Katharine-Henderson-101315
The Mississippi Flag
Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph. D. in The New York Times, November 13, 2015 — To the Editor: As a white Mississippian in Manhattan, I fully support the Flag for All Mississippians Coalition, which has called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/opinion/the-mississippi-flag.html?_r=2
Shall We Overcome? An Invitation for MLK, Jr. Day
Rev. Dr. James Forbes and Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson at Patheos, January 14, 2016 — As we approach this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, over half a century since the immortal “I Have a Dream” speech, we ask: Are we any closer to the dream that King spoke of or is it now even further from our reach?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2016/01/shall-we-overcome-an-invitation-for-mlk-jr-day/How Much Does Race Matter? A Conversation About the Obama Presidency
Rev. Dr. James Forbes and Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson at Patheos, February 24, 2016 — Coming to the end of the Obama presidency, it seems important that we gain some clarity on the impact of race over his two terms.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionnow/2016/02/how-much-does-race-matter-a-conversationabout-the-obama-presidency/Where Are the White Churches?
Rev. John Janka at MiddleProject.org, March 5, 2016 — During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s numerous Black clergy, including Martin Luther King, Jr. appealed to the white church for support and active engagement. The movement hoped for financial, political and moral support from the white church. Much of the white church responded with either silence or outright disdain that King and other leaders were threatening the status quo.
http://www.middleproject.org/cpt_news/where-are-the-white-churches
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A bigger circle in Baltimore and Burundi
Brian D. McLaren on BrianMclaren.net — There's trouble today in two places I know and love: Baltimore and Burundi. I spent over forty years of my life in Maryland, not far from Baltimore. During the last six or seven years of my work there as a pastor, I was blessed to have friends who worked in the neighborhoods of the city that are on TV this week. They regularly invited me to spend time with them and learn what life was like for them.
http://brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/a-bigger-circle-in-baltimore-and.html
Race, Money and Politics: Connecting Some Dots
Rev. John Janka at MiddleProject.org, April 6, 2016 — Race-based bigotry and violence has been a festering wound now exposed to the light of day by a series of deaths resulting from police action against people of color. One may understandably wonder, did the civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s really change anything? That movement put critically important laws on the books that improved things a great deal. Yet, those laws have been chipped away and subverted over time.
http://www.middleproject.org/cpt_news/race-money-and-politics-connecting-some-dots
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Middle Church Preaches Race
Release. Repair. Restore.
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on February 9, 2014
http://bit.ly/1i4JrZz
What’s Growing Inside?
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at Middle Church on March 9, 2014
http://bit.ly/1jFQRqu
A ReConceived Notion
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis at Middle Church on March 16, 2014
http://bit.ly/QITJca
#Ferguson—Hands Up
Morning Prayer by Rev. Adriene Thorne on August 17, 2014
http://bit.ly/1QbyJ7X
Can You Hear the Cry?
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on December 7, 2014
http://bit.ly/1bmiuoC
You Called Me?
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rabbi Burton Visotzky on January 18, 2015
http://bit.ly/1N8QFfF
Hold On, It’s Comin’
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on February 22, 2015
http://bit.ly/23hA3vz
When We All Know God . . .
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on March 22, 2015
http://bit.ly/1SQ2o7g
It’s About the Body
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on April 19, 2015
http://bit.ly/1oCdGkU
A City of Peace
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on May 17, 2015
http://bit.ly/22cA55m
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#PrayforCharleston
Prayer by Rev. Adriene Thorne and the congregation on June 21, 2015
http://bit.ly/1N8QTn5
Even in Lament, Thanks
Prayer by Rev. Adriene Thorne on June 21, 2015
http://bit.ly/23bQ8pP
All Things New
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on November 22, 2015
http://bit.ly/207LrrP
The Beginning and the End
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on November 22, 2015 http://bit.ly/23bQcWC
Body Politics
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Hussein Rashid on January 17, 2016 http://bit.ly/1UIAq0B
Break It Down!
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on February 28, 2016
http://bit.ly/22cB1Xr
The March Continues
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on March 20, 2016 http://bit.ly/1XhdbIQ
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Joh, W. A. (2006). Heart of the cross: A postcolonial Christology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.
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Kujawa-Holbrook, S. (2002). A house of prayer for all peoples: Congregations building multiracial community. Bethesda, MD: The Alban Institute Lapsley, M. (2013). Redeeming the past: My journey from freedom fighter to healer.
Maryknoll, NY. Orbis Books.
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Lesser, E. (2000). The seeker’s guide: Making your life a spiritual adventure. New York: Villard Books.
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Lundblad, B. (2001). Transforming the stone: Preaching through resistance. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
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Rashid, H. (2012). Exploring Muslim spirituality: An introduction to the beauty of Islam.
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Ten Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation by The Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis
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One copy is available for you at the registration table.
Ten Essential Strategies to Grow a Multiracial, Multicultural
Congregation
The Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis REVISED EDITION
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Evaluation: Friday, April 15, 2016
SESSION RATING
(Circle one.) COMMENTS
12:00P
Registration
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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2 Somewhat Helpful
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0 Did Not Attend
1:00P
Embodying Our Leadership,
Loving Our Movements
— Jardana Peacock
5 Extremely important
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0 Did Not Attend
2:00P
America’s Greatest Sin:
A Frank Talk on Race
— Jim Wallis and Jacqui Lewis
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4:15P
Opening Small Group
Conversations
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7:00P
Telling the Truth
— Waltrina Middleton,
Karyn Carlo, Joey Morelli,
Candace Simpson
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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9:00P
Pub Theology
— Jim Kast-Keat and
Micky ScottBey Jones
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Evaluation: Saturday, April 16, 2016 • Page 1
SESSION RATING
(Circle one.) COMMENTS
8:30A
In Memoriam
— Taquiena Boston
5 Extremely important
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0 Did Not Attend
9:00A
What Does Revolutionary
Love Look Like?
— Micky ScottBey Jones,
Chris Crass, Valarie Kaur
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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1:00P
Race, Politics, and
Revolutionary Love
— Melissa Harris-Perry
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
A Multifaith Theo/Ethics
of Resistance
— Amichai Lau-Lavie,
Michael-Ray Mathews,
Traci West
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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2 Somewhat Helpful
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
Intersectionality:
LGBTQ + Race
— Caitlin Breedlove, Teresa
Pasquale
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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2 Somewhat Helpful
1 Not Helpful
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
The Art of Sacred
Confrontations
— John Janka, Naomi
Christine Leapheart
5 Extremely important
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
Black Lives Matter: Media
and Movement Making
— Sharon Groves, Melvin Bray,
Hannah Bonner, Lena Gardner,
Ashley Harness, Queen Mother
Imakhu, Jamye Wooten
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
The Moral Crisis of
Whiteness
— Peter Heltzel, Holly
Roach, Betty-Jeanne
Rueters-Ward
5 Extremely important
4 Important
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2 Somewhat Helpful
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
Tools & Tactics: Solidarity,
Leadership and When to
Follow
— Chris Crass, Grace Ji-Sun
Kim, Melinda WeekesLaidlow
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
Embodied Organizing
Through Ritual and Story
— Lisa Anderson, Elizabeth
Nguyen, Mykal Slack
5 Extremely important
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2:45P / 4:30P WORKSHOP
Dismantling Unconscious
Racial Bias
— Anurag Gupta and
Vasudha Gupta
5 Extremely important
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7:00P
Art = Justice:
“This One Girl’s Story”
Concert version of the
musical by Bil Wright and
Dionne McClain-Freeney
5 Extremely important
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Evaluation: Sunday, April 26, 2015
SESSION RATING
(Circle one.) COMMENTS
9:30A
Contemplative Practice
— Teresa Pasquale
5 Extremely important
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11:15A
Movement for the
Movement
— Allison Mickelson
5 Extremely important
4 Important
3 Helpful
2 Somewhat Helpful
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9:30A / 11:15A
Celebration! Worship
— Jacqui Lewis, preaching
5 Extremely important
4 Important
3 Helpful
2 Somewhat Helpful
1 Not Helpful
0 Did Not Attend
2:00P
When Black Live (REALLY)
Matter . . .
— Marlin Lavanhar and
Hussein Rashid
5 Extremely important
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3:00P
Authentic Lamenting—
Weeping. Worshiping.
Working
— Deborah and Miguel De
La Torre
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4:00P
Cocktail Conversations
5 Extremely important
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1 Not Helpful
0 Did Not Attend
5:00P
Art & Soul Worship
Yvette Flunder, preaching
Music by BETTY
5 Extremely important
4 Important
3 Helpful
2 Somewhat Helpful
1 Not Helpful
0 Did Not Attend
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