7 pm Race and Faith Series
Every Wednesday, from 12/02/2020 to 12/16/2020, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Race & Faith Continued
Our Lenten program was put on pause last spring when everything was shut down. We are using three Wednesday evenings in December to finish that series via zoom. More details will be coming your way. For now, you’ll want to get it on your calendar.
Wednesday December 2nd 7:00 – 8:30 pm via Zoom. The Montana Racial Equity Project, will present, The Black (Non)Accrual of Wealth and Reparations. This session will study the history and causes of Black-white racial wealth inequality and the call for reparations.
Wednesday December 9th 7:00 – 8:30 pm via Zoom Professor Tobin Miller Shearer will present, Formation: Anti-Racist Practice as Spiritual Discipline. In this interactive session, we will work with a series of case studies to learn best practices for interrupting racism when we encounter it in our daily lives and interactions. The wisdom of the spiritual disciplines will guide our discussion.
Wednesday December 16th 7:00 – 8:30 pm via Zoom U of M Professor David Beck, of the Native American Studies program, will present, Tribal Sovereignty and American Indian Religious Freedom. American Indian tribes have a unique political relationship with the United States due to their status as nations within a nation. Yet they continue to struggle to exert the “tribal sovereignty” that is theirs under law. At the same time, the United States claims to be a nation founded on the idea of religious liberty. Yet the first Americans have historically been denied the right to practice their religions, and this is also something with which they still struggle. This talk will look at the intertwining of tribal sovereignty and American Indian religious freedom.