Sep 22, 2022 | Anti-Racism, Events, News & Announcements
October 8, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 47 Jefferson Ave Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Check-in from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m., event from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church Grand Rapids is honored to host Randal Jelks, Professor of African and African...
Sep 7, 2022 | Anti-Racism
Photo by Jonathan Cosens Photography on Unsplash Greetings, The Presbyterian Church (USA) held its biennial national meeting, the 2022 225th General Assembly (GA). Pre-COVID the GA of course, met in-person. This year was the first ever hybrid meeting. There were 17...
Jun 8, 2022 | Anti-Racism, News & Announcements
Photo by Leighann Blackwood on Unsplash The Presbytery of Lake Michigan works to live into its Matthew 25 commitment to help dismantle systemic racism. Members of the presbytery’s Nominating & Representation Committee encourage congregational leaders to take a...
Apr 27, 2022 | Anti-Racism, News & Announcements
Members and resource staff for SCRTR, courtesy of valerie izumi. Picture from https://www.pcusa.org/news/2022/4/18/final-report-special-committee-racism-truth-and-re/ The Special Committee on Racism Truth and Reconciliation has issued its final report in advance of...
Jan 25, 2022 | Anti-Racism, News & Announcements
A new book by award-winning author Randal Maurice Jelks includes a series of letters he’s written to Martin Luther King Jr. about issues currently confronting our country. “Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America” was released January 11,...
Sep 2, 2021 | Anti-Racism, News & Announcements
John Woolman was a gentle, 18th century Quaker who spent his life traveling to Religious Society of Friends’ meetings and speaking against slavery. For all his convictions, however, Woolman was not without fault. Woolman, who would become known by historians as the...
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