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Join Rev. Dr. David N. Moore and Mr. Matt Lowe's deep dive on the issue of reparations, to identify and address the root of harm, how we may navigate this heated topic, and be stewards of justice for all.
Guest Bios
Guest Bios
Rev. Dr. David N. Moore, Jr. is a theologian, humanitarian, writer, and adjunct university professor living in Santa Barbara, CA, and a grandfather. David is a UCSB alum and leads Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church, and also Jesus Collective, an online community that exists to foster wholeness and equity by healing relationships and cultural divides, honoring the dignity of all peoples, and protecting the biodiversity of our planet, through actively listening, understanding, partnering, and serving.
David and co-host Kerry Connelly host a weekly podcast and YouTube show called "God Is Not an A**". They interview people who have broken free from religious dogmatism and are living fuller, freer lives.
In 2019, David presented at The Parliament of the World's Religions on his book "Making America Great Again: Fairy Tale, Horror Story, Dream Come True?”
David earned his Master's degree from St. Stephen's University in New Brunswick, Canada, and his doctorate in theology from the University of South Africa. He has been married to Diane for 46 years and they have five adult children.
Matt Lowe is the founder of CUREJ (pronounced courage), a group that organizes faith-centric communities in an effort to make reparations. Matt serves as a restorative justice facilitator who seeks to promote restorative healing practices in order to address historical and social harm. He particularly focuses on reaching white dominant institutions and is working on a upcoming book entitled, “White Repentance: The Work For White People to Do to Make Reparations.” When Matt is not doing reparative work, he can be found on the water fishing or helping men address the harm of the patriarchy so they can be better contributors to the world. His most recent endeavor is a new program at Antioch University designed to work with men in a therapeutic setting.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
Call Number: E185.97 .H825 B47 2006
ISBN: 0307277054
Publication Date: 2006-10-10
Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Christian Imagination by Willie James Jennings
ISBN: 9780300171365
Publication Date: 2011-05-17
A ground-breaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period--winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence "Detailing the nooks and crannies of white supremacist Christianity, The Christian Imagination allows not only for greater sophistication when considering race and theology. It also points to possible cures to the disease so elegantly diagnosed."--Edward J. Blum, Journal of Religion "[A] theological masterpiece."--Chris Smith, Englewood Review of Books Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation--social, spatial, and racial--that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.
White Women by Regina Jackson; Saira Rao
ISBN: 9780143136439
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
An instant New York Times Bestseller! A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions- how has being "nice" helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being "nice" helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being "nice" earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white womenfrom this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitablelife. White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy.Your white supremacy.If you are in fact doingrealanti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regularbasis, you are not doing it right.
Mission: To build an international movement of creative conflict resolution built on affirmation, respect for all, community, cooperation and trust.
AVP-USA is an association of community, school and prison-based groups offering experiential workshops in personal growth, community development and creative conflict management
Founded in prison and developed from the real life experiences of prisoners, AVP encourages every person’s innate power to positively transform first themselves and then the world we live in.
Alternatives to Violence Project brings together diverse groups of people to build Dr. King’s nonviolent “beloved community”. Together, we will build a more peaceful and equitable world.
Denise Hamilton: jdenisehamilton@gmail.com
Denise Hamilton: jdenisehamilton@gmail.com
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