A space where we can learn about white supremacy and the church together

I'm looking forward to this June, since I will have the opportunity to lead a week-long seminar entitled 'Subverting White Supremacy'. From a Christian standpoint, participants and I will collectively graple with the evident and veiled ways that racial hierarchy has directed the life and thought of the Church in the West, and then we will conceive together new ways of belonging in and around Jesus that disrupt, subvert, and unsettle these hidden realities. 

Participants that attend my seminar can expect, along with all the other great programming and events that are part of the Summer Institute, to engage in thoughtful reflection and dialogue that takes seriously a "thick" understanding of racism while also exploring practices and ways of being that offer us deliverance from this vicious cycle. 

I have been leading seminars with local churches and community groups locally and around the country, but I am particularly looking forward to this opportunity to dialogue intimately with participants over a more extended 5-Day seminar of co-learning. Then those that are willing to invest time and energy can seriously struggle over the ever present and pervasive problem of race and racism that inhabits the logics of the church. While we won't solve all the world's problems, we will be more equipped to identify and name the lie of white supremacy in its everyday manifestations, and then reimagine and embody, a more faithful way of gathering and bearing witness to Jesus Christ.