4th Week of Lent
April 1, 2014
Dear Friends,
Later today we will be sending out from Mercer our monthly email sharing upcoming events. Featured in the outgoing issue are ongoing Lenten season events, the next Safe Church training at Mercer, as well as registration information for the May 3 Faith Formation Convocation described below. Do share the news with three friends and colleagues, and lan to visit us soon.
The Diocese of Long Island's second annual Faith Formation Convocation is scheduled for Saturday, May 3rd. Much more information will be coming soon, including posters about the event for our parish communities, and a finalized list of workshop presenters and themes.
The overall theme for this second gathering of those in our diocese who share the faith with children, deepen the faith with adults, and sustain the faith of all, will focus on the vital issues around race, racism, appreciating diversity and building up one community embracing us all.
Nationally and within the church we are often reticent to face issues around racial divisions head-on. Yet if we are to be truly one in Christ; if we are to be able to pass on one faith with one effective voice, we must talk together about race, racism, and diversity among us.
So, we are delighted to be able to welcome as our keynote speaker on May 3 the Executive Director of the Tracing Center on the Histories and Legacies of Slavery, James DeWolf Perry.
The Center expresses their mission in these few words:
Our mission is to educate the public about the history and legacy of race and other forms of discrimination, in order to change hearts and minds, foster dialogue, and encourage healing and justice.
To carry out that mission, the Center engages with corporations, municipalities, churches and non-profits to educate and to encourage dialogue. Traces of the Trade: a story from the deep north (http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/) is the Center's 2008 Emmy-nominated documentary film on the slave trade history of one family, the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island, and how that trade's effects reach from that one point in space and time to affect so many and so much. We will be screening the film at the Mercer Library during the week prior to the Convocation on May 3rd.
The title of James DeWolf Perry's opening address will be Let Us Be Repairers of the Breach: Addressing the Legacy of Race and Building Beloved Community.
You can learn more about the work of the Tracing Center at their website - www.tracingcenter.org.
I hope that a great number of faith formation workers in our diocese will plan to be here at Mercer on May 3rd. It will be a day to be remembered.
April 1, 2014
Dear Friends,
Later today we will be sending out from Mercer our monthly email sharing upcoming events. Featured in the outgoing issue are ongoing Lenten season events, the next Safe Church training at Mercer, as well as registration information for the May 3 Faith Formation Convocation described below. Do share the news with three friends and colleagues, and lan to visit us soon.
The Diocese of Long Island's second annual Faith Formation Convocation is scheduled for Saturday, May 3rd. Much more information will be coming soon, including posters about the event for our parish communities, and a finalized list of workshop presenters and themes.
The overall theme for this second gathering of those in our diocese who share the faith with children, deepen the faith with adults, and sustain the faith of all, will focus on the vital issues around race, racism, appreciating diversity and building up one community embracing us all.
Nationally and within the church we are often reticent to face issues around racial divisions head-on. Yet if we are to be truly one in Christ; if we are to be able to pass on one faith with one effective voice, we must talk together about race, racism, and diversity among us.
So, we are delighted to be able to welcome as our keynote speaker on May 3 the Executive Director of the Tracing Center on the Histories and Legacies of Slavery, James DeWolf Perry.
The Center expresses their mission in these few words:
Our mission is to educate the public about the history and legacy of race and other forms of discrimination, in order to change hearts and minds, foster dialogue, and encourage healing and justice.
To carry out that mission, the Center engages with corporations, municipalities, churches and non-profits to educate and to encourage dialogue. Traces of the Trade: a story from the deep north (http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/) is the Center's 2008 Emmy-nominated documentary film on the slave trade history of one family, the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island, and how that trade's effects reach from that one point in space and time to affect so many and so much. We will be screening the film at the Mercer Library during the week prior to the Convocation on May 3rd.
The title of James DeWolf Perry's opening address will be Let Us Be Repairers of the Breach: Addressing the Legacy of Race and Building Beloved Community.
You can learn more about the work of the Tracing Center at their website - www.tracingcenter.org.
I hope that a great number of faith formation workers in our diocese will plan to be here at Mercer on May 3rd. It will be a day to be remembered.
Wishing you and yours all the blessings of this season,
John McGinty+
Mercer: providing space & time for worthwhile conversation
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we are sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we are sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
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