Save the Date, Dr. King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail Community Study|Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30 pm, April 9 - May 14, Zoom sign up here. The Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice is hosting this study online. More details to come.
The Race + Equity Team is excited to share that the Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice will be leading an online study of Dr. King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail. Any members of the community are invited to join in this five-week study of this historic and faithful letter written from a Dr. King's jail cell in 1963, a letter which continues to speak to us today. Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm | April 9 - May 14 | Zoom | Click HERE to Register.
Each session will include a large group introduction to help frame the week’s study followed by guided discussion in breakout groups. In this way, we will explore the racialized issues in Birmingham at the time of Dr. King's letter and those that persist today here in Durham, N.C. We will consider what motivated white (and Black) clergy in Birmingham to urge Dr. King to wait and the extent to which those motivations remain prevalent today. And we will examine the American church today and the degree to which white Christians in particular see racialization as a matter of concern and, when they do, seek to be brothers and sisters united through Christ in the service of racial healing, education, and justice work.
About the Partnership:
The Mt. Level Community Partnership aspires to unite churches and individuals to bring about racial justice in our community and our world. One way we work to do this is by educating and organizing around racial justice issues to generate dialogue that promotes truth telling, forgiveness, and healing.The Partnership is a Christian organization whose beliefs are motivated and guided by the life and work of Jesus Christ. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ, as we seek to expose and resist the dehumanizing effects of racialization. With Dr. King, we declare that “Our goal [of creating] a beloved community… will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”