A Holiday Sermon for Every Faith: Tools for Teaching Tolerance
 
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
10:00am U.S. Central Time |
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What we know about the state of hate and intolerance in the U.S. is harrowing, but not crippling. How can holiday sermons transform communal calls for peace into tools for teaching tolerance? Join Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of Outreach, in the in the first webinar installation of our Faiths Against Hate campaign.
Faith community and interfaith participants will benefit by this discussion explaining how interfaith measures and religious dialogue can successfully mitigate today's worsening climate of hate in the United States, how to link the lessons of the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance campaign to the holiday sermon as a vehicle, what positive outcomes arose from peace-seeking action this year, and how to train parents to teach tolerance in a holiday season.
Lecia Brooks is the Director of Outreach for the Southern Poverty Law Center where she leads efforts to develop and facilitate educational resource models of anti-oppression, teaching tolerance, and advancing civil rights. Brooks shepherded the publication of the widely-read biannual Teaching Tolerance Magazine of the SPLC in conjunction with the center's first web-based professional development program, the Teaching Diverse Students Initiative. Prior to joining the SPLC, she served as Director of Special Projects at the Conference for Community & Justice in Los Angeles. While there, she initiated a series of anti-hate courses with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for juvenile hate crime offenders; designed and directed residential camp programs with Tyra Banks for teenage girls to combat the negative effects of sexism; and created and facilitated anti-oppression workshops for high school students and teachers featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Brooks is also the Founder and Principal Consultant for Diversity Matters, an independent consulting firm that develops customized education and diversity workshops for non-profits, institutions of higher learning and government entities. Brooks began her career as an elementary school teacher, and earned her degree in political science at Loyola Marymount University.
Title: A Holiday Sermon for Every Faith: Tools for Teaching Tolerance
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Time: 10:00am CDT
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