Adult Formation Class: Restorations and Reparations

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Over the past year, All Soulsians have been pondering questions of racial justice, healing, and reconciliation. This class will explore questions of restoration and reparation, inspired by the promise of the prophet Isaiah, “You shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in” (Isaiah 58:12). In conversation with leaders from the wider Episcopal Church, we will explore foundations for the work of racial reconciliation in scripture and Christian tradition, and consider next steps we might take individually and as a congregation. This class is open to all and is intended to be complementary to the Sacred Ground groups and the fall class “Carrying the Cross Together.”

May 2: The Rev. Michael Battle, PhD, Herbert Thompson Chair of Church and Society and Director of the Desmond Tutu Center at General Theological Seminary. Dr. Battle has written extensively on racial reconciliation, including The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality of Racial Reconciliation, coauthored with Tony Campolo, and Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu. He has served congregations in South Africa and the United States and has held academic and administrative positions at several seminaries.