The issues around racial unrest and the call for justice and change were major topics of discussion during the final day of the virtual Moderators’ Conference.
During a late morning session, the Reverend Denise Anderson, coordinator for racial and intercultural justice with the Presbyterian Mission Agency, led a panel discussion involving several Presbyterian church leaders who have been involved with, or are currently involved in, community actions that have generated national attention.
COVID-19 has us all sheltering in place and employees of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are still working from home. But on Friday there was a great sense of oneness as the staff came together to celebrate Juneteenth.
Why are we still talking about racism?
More than one mid-council moderator wanted to know why the Rev. Denise Anderson, the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Coordinator of Racial and Intercultural Justice and Co-Moderator of the 222nd General Assembly, held a workshop Saturday called “Do We Really Want to Do This?” during the Moderators’ Conference.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Co-Moderators T. Denise Anderson and Jan Edmiston have called upon Presbyterians at all levels of the church to move beyond the denomination’s existing tools for combatting sexual harassment and abuse—“healthy boundary training, child protection training, and criminal background checks”—to “seek a deeper cultural shift.”
몬트리트 컨퍼런스 센터는 50여 년 전에 몬트리트에서 열린 크리스천 액션 컨퍼런스 (Christian Action Conference)에서 연설한 마틴 루터 킹 주니어 (Martin Luther King Jr.) 목사를 기념하는 3 일간의 컨퍼런스(2015년 8월)의 주제로 킹 박사의 미완성 의제 (Unfinished Agenda)를 개최했습니다. 이 회의는 “인종차별주의, 빈곤, 전쟁, 그리고 유물론”에 반대하는 킹목사의 유산과 이 분야에서 여전히 수행해야 할 과제를 검토한 것입니다.
그가 사망한 시점에서 킹 박사는 가난한 백성 캠페인 (Poor People 's Campaign)에 종사했습니다. "시민 인권(civil rights)에서 인류 인권(human rights)시대로의 전환"을 알린 킹 박사는 모든 인종과 민족의 가난한 사람들로 구성된 워싱톤에서의 캠페인과 새로운 행진을 조직하기 시작했습니다. 랄프 애버나티(Ralph Abernathy) 목사의 말에 따르면 행진은 "모든 인종의 가난한 사람들의 곤경을 극적으로 표현하고 더 나은 삶을 기다림에 지쳐있음을 분명히 알리기"위해 고안되었습니다. 테네시 멤피스에 있는 청소부 노동자들의 공평한 임금을 주장한 킹 박사의 동맹은 그가 암살당하기 전 노동자들을 지원하기 위해 Memphis를 두 차례 여행 중이었습니다
In August of 2015, Montreat Conference Center hosted Dr. King’s Unfinished Agenda, a three-day conference commemorating the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s address to the Christian Action Conference at Montreat fifty years earlier. The conference examined King’s legacy of standing against “racism, poverty, war, and materialism” and the work still left to be done in these areas.
At the time of his death, Dr. King was engaged in what was known as the Poor People’s Campaign. Having discerned a shift from “the era of civil rights to the era of human rights,” Dr. King had begun organizing toward a campaign and a new march on Washington consisting of poor people from across the country of all races and ethnicities. The march, according to the Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy, was designed to “dramatize the plight of America’s poor of all races and make very clear that they are sick and tired of waiting for a better life.” Integral to the campaign was Dr. King’s alliance with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, who were demonstrating for equal pay. It was during one of two trips to Memphis in support of those workers that Dr. King was assassinated.
The Reverend Denise Anderson, Co-Moderator of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), shares reflections on the DisGrace Conference held October 10-13 at Montreat Conference Center. The conference was described as “a faithful response to the embedded and structural racism in church and culture.”
Join Denise Anderson and Jan Edmiston, Co-Moderators of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as they share regular reflections regularly in this video blog. In this installment Denise visits the Children's Defense Fund, Alex Haley Farm. Please view and share.
Join Denise Anderson and Jan Edmiston, Co-Moderators of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as they share regular reflections in this video blog. In this short video Denise talks about the Ecumenical Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Please view and share.
Join Denise Anderson and Jan Edmiston, Co-Moderators of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as they share regular reflections in this video blog. In this intallment Jan talks about the goals for their two-year term. View and share.