Second in series titled “Community, Faith, and Racial Justice”, exploring Christianity’s involvement in perpetuating racial injustice.
The Reverend Dr. Pamela Cooper-White is an Episcopal priest and clinical psychologist and retired Christine Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary. A prolific author, Dr. Cooper-White will speak on the topic of her recent book, The Psychology of White Christian Nationalism: Why People are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide. Dr. Cooper-White’s book will be available for purchase and signing following the event.
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Location: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto, CA
Admission: Please register for FREE tickets: HERE
Accessibility: St. Mark’s is wheelchair accessible; closed captioning will be available.
Parking: Ample parking behind the church.
Questions: Please email beloved_community@saint-marks.com
Our nation continues to combat racial inequality in 2024, 60 years after the passage of the
landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto invites the wider community to a speaker series, “Community, Faith, and Racial Justice,” that explores the role of Christianity, including the current white Christian Nationalist movement, in this injustice and seeks to define a path toward racial justice, healing, and reconciliation.
Bay Area community members who want to learn more about this critical topic and how they can help enact change locally will benefit from hearing the experiences, perspectives, and ideas of the renowned authors featured in this series.
Future speakers include:
September 18, 2024, 7:00 PM: Challenging Segregation with Just Action
Ms. Leah Rothstein is a community organizer and the co-author, with Richard Rothstein, of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law. She will speak on actions that communities can take to restore housing rights and access to people of color who have been excluded from the financial benefits of home ownership, access to good public schools, more protected environments, and better community services.
Winter, 2025 (Date TBD): Religion, Race, and the “Heathen”
Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum is a Professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Professor Gin Lum’s most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, looks at how the figure of the “heathen” in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race.
Presenting Sponsor: Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church – Palo Alto
Co-Sponsors: American Muslim Voice Foundation • First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC • First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto • Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Peninsula Solidarity Cohort • Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga • Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church, Cupertino • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Sunnyvale • Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Mountain View • Showing Up for Racial Justice @Sacred Heart • Stanford Canterbury • Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose • Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto • University Lutheran Church at Stanford
