Sunday Service | February 10, 2019
Please join us this Sunday, February 10th at 11AM for a Sunday Service Entitled: The Long Arm of Slavery At Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Our guest preacher will be KATRINA BROWNE producer/director of the Emmy-nominated, feature length documentary Traces of the Trade: a Story from the Deep North.
Other guests and participants will include:
actors, drummers and singers, from The American Slavery Project https://www.americanslaveryproject.org
This service is an opportunity for all of us to explore personal accountability and the “work” of accountability—to reflect on our own family histories and our collective involvement in systemic racism historically and today —with particular focus on issues and historical facts that liberal/progressive white Northerners are often blind to.
Directly after the service there will be a screening of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North with Katrina leading a post-screening discussion.
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Special Note About Coffee Hour
We are very excited about our guest preacher on Sunday and the showing of her film. Because we want to get the film going right after the worship service, we will be bi-locating the coffee hour. If you are staying for the film, get your coffee and come back to a seat. If you choose not to stay for the film, please head to the garden room for coffee.
What we hope you WON’T do is hang around in the back and make noise.
THANKS EVERYONE. This is an experiment. We hope it will work.
-Donna
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Answering Ruby Sales’ Call to Action This #BlackFuturesMonth
Imagining Black Futures requires a reckoning with the past. The recently released TED Talk featuring Ruby Nell Sales, who has been described by PBS News Hour as a “legendary civil rights activist,” and known by many people across a range of social justice movements as a brilliant and brave movement pioneer organizer and thinker, is a talk for our times. In “How We Can Heal The Pain of Racial Division,” Ruby Sales is unafraid and offers a call to a type of action that catalyzes internal transformation and the end to racist violence. And we thought what better way to celebrate #BlackFuturesMonth than by meditating on several salient nuggets of wisdom offered in Ruby’s talk.
Read more here!
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Dating Outside Your Tribe
Thursday, February 14th & 21st | NYU - GCASI 461
6PM
Are you a participant in the world of modern dating? Do you date across religious lines? Are you seeking guidance in navigating the challenges of interfaith relationships? Like any relationship involving two people of distinct backgrounds, questions of differing values and belief systems arise. These differences are, however, by no means irreconcilable.
After having spent 37 years in a successful interfaith marriage, one might consider Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper of Judson Memorial Church to be something of an expert on the subject. In February she will be using her wisdom to facilitate a three-part discussion hosted by NYU’s Global Spiritual Life.
Attending all three days is highly encouraged. Bring your partner!
RSVP here!
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The Judson Book Group
Wednesday, February 20th
6:30PM
This month's book:
Howards End by E. M. Forster
A novel, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England, describing the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Howard's End 38th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Host: Betty Mackintosh
For more information, contact Mary Russell at @mcrussell42@aol.com
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Judson Arts Wednesdays Presents, Magic Time, featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Wednesday, February 20th | Meeting Room
7:15PM
Judson Arts Wednesdays presents,
a Magic Time happening
featuring
Poetic Theater Productions' Love, Redefined: Resilience
Join us as we celebrate radical love of self and others with a night of poetic and theatrical remixes, re-imaginings and riffs by more than 20 poets, playwrights, and musicians sharing new work responding to traditional poetry, quotes, and writings on love.
Inspiration poems and newly developed pieces are presented side-by-side.
Ticket RSVP encouraged, but not required for entry.
#JudsonArtsWednesdays #MagicTime
FOOD.ART.COMMUNITY.SPACE.FREE!
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A Trailblazers 2019 Panel
Shades of Black: Finding My Voice
Friday, February 22nd | Union Theological Seminary
5PM
In his final book, "Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody," the Rev. Dr. James Hal Cone describes how he helped generations of Union students uncover the truth they were meant to speak. Now, hear about his teaching, mentorship and impact, in his students' own words.
Featuring our very own Kendrick Arthur Kemp, Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Dr. Wende Elizabeth Marshall, Nkosi Dubois Anderson. Moderated by Hassan Xavier Henderson-Lott
RSVP here!
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