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Ubuntu Rising Highlights!
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SDPC Launches Innovation Hub for Congregation Sustainability:
A Cup We Can All Drink From
Thursday, July 26, 2018, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. will launch its "Innovation Hub for Congregational Sustainability: A Cup We Can All Drink From."
"A Cup We Can All Drink From"
is an initiative that garners researchers, thought leaders, educators and practitioners with expertise in direct participation and learning with seasoned and emerging church leaders.
The initiative's tagline "A cup we can all drink from," signals a re-evaluation and a re-calibrating of the role and purpose of the cup of Christian living from the point of hearing from God (a call) to accepting that call (a calling) to living out that call (as a vocation) therefore being transformed as individuals and communities of Faith.
The SDPC Innovation Hub for Congregation Sustainability provides a framework and creative space for leadership and congregational education, resources and grant making to implement church-based projects on called lives of meaning and purpose and models of continuing education in the church, academy and community.
For more information on this transformtive initiative, contact Project Director, Rev. Marcus L. Tabb, SDPC director of clergy and seminary partnerships at [email protected] or 773-548-6699.
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#FREEPALESTINE
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Absynnian Baptist Church Bible Study Group
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We thank Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York, Inc. for sharing their witness on social media! We urge others to share your Journeys Toward Justice experiences as well, using #freepalestine, be sure to tag Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference and Dr. Mitri Raheb!
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Journeys Toward Justice Ministry Resources
We urge you to incorporate the SDPC educational resources, below, in your church-wide bible studies for more information on Palestine, Political Israel and Biblical Israel. Like Abyssinian Baptist Church, you can deepen your learning experience by incorporating Dr. Mitri Raheb's 2014 book, "Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes," or his recent book, "The Cross in Contexts: Suffering and Redemption in Palestine" in your studies.
1. View: The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. conversational round table,
"Journey to Justice: From Black America to Palestine," a conversation among religious scholars,
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., pastor emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, co-founder of the SDPC and SDPC trustee;
Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, interim academic dean & associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School in Ohio and SDPC trustee;
Attorney Dr. Jonathan Kuttab, chairman, Bethlehem Bible College, leading human rights attorney and peace activist in Israel and Palestine and
Rev. Dr. Alton Pollard, dean and professor of religion and culture at Howard University School of Divinity,
moderated by SDPC General Secretary, Dr. Iva E. Carruthers.
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Journey to Justice: From Black America to Palestine
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| This conversation will answer the following questions:
- How has Palestinian identity been shaped by the historical, political and social realities of being tied to the land, yet being cast as an outsider and labeled as an intruder in your own land?
- What is the difference between the Biblical Israel and the Political Israel?
- What does that have to do with the call for liberation from the Palestinian peole?
- How do we learn to interpret the Bible through the lens of justice?
- How do you disrupt a deep abiding commitment to a theology that doesn't care about people, but only end results?
- What are the similar worldviews held between Palestinian communities and African-descended communities?
- What are the similarities between the narratives cultivated by the media that arise when Palestinian or African American communities resist oppression?
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Congratulations!!
Family,
please join us in congratulating former SDPC Scholar in Residence and FTE Doctoral Fellow, Rev. Taurean J. Webb on his recently announced acceptance of the invitation to serve as the Interim Director of the Center for the Church and Black Experience (CBE) at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. Taurean began immediate service in this position and will serve until the fall semester or longer, as needed, upon the completion of the faculty search for a new colleague who will succeed Dr. Angela Cowser. Dr. Cowser is the new Associate Dean of the Black Church Studies and Doctor of Ministry Program and Associate Professor of Black Church Studies at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Taurean is the youngest ever to serve in the Interim Director position of the CBE! We congratulate Rev. Webb and his work with the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary community.
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Watch for more details! It is
our hope that we will be able to arrange either a pre- or post-conference trip to Montgomery, AL to see The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Many may recall our
partnership with EJI, founded by Attorney, Bryan Stevenson,
and the We Say Enough Campaign by Community for Change which resulted in the marker unveiling ceremony,
memoralizing the lynching of Anthony Crawford, the great, great grandfather of the late Doria Johnson, SDPC scholar-in-residence, in Abbeville, SC, October, 2016.
View this short, informative video published by the Guardian on the April 26th opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and its in-depth article. on the museum and its relevance.
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