TP2305 - Class 5
2020-09-24 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Exodus: Justice as Faithfulness
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: J. James

TP2305 - Class 6
2020-10-01 08:00 - 10:00
The Story of Israel: A community of Equals
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: W. Smith

TP2305 - Class 7
2020-10-07 08:00 - 10:00
Justice According to the Prophets
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: M. Catlett

TP2305 - Class 8
2020-10-15 08:00 - 10:00
Reading

TP 2305 - Class 9
2020-10-22 08:00 - 10:00
Justice in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: M. Reed

TP 2305 - Class 10
2020-11-05 08:00 - 10:00
Justice in the Sermon on the Mount
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: D. Dapaah

Short Course on Biblical Justice and Christian Formation
2020-11-07 10:00 - 11:30
https://reformedinstitute.org/event/short-course-on-biblical-justice-and-christian-formation/
Short Course on Biblical Justice and Christian Formation
A short course this fall with presentations and discussion of Presbyterian scholar Michael Barram’s “Missional Economics: Biblical Justice and Christian Formation.” LIVE ZOOM event on Saturdays, Nov. 7, 14, and 21 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. We will engage with church leaders from the Justice Formation Fellowship a group of White and Black churches connected with the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. Join us for this ecumenical conversation of key Biblical texts on justice and economics, and their implications for our communities. Registration details to follow.

TP 2305 - Class 11
2020-11-12 08:00 - 10:00
Justice in The Testament
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: Angela Parker

TP 2305 - Class 12
2020-11-19 08:00 - 10:00
Western Theories of Justice
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: Shirin

Black Presbyterians and Racial Justice: Reshaping the Reformed Tradition in the U.S.
2020-11-21 10:00 - 12:00
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The Reformed Tradition has been complicit in slavery, segregation, and White dominance throughout U.S. history. At the same time, Black Presbyterians have drawn on deep wells of resilience and prophetic vision to contest such racism and to reframe the tradition from within. Two gifted scholars will present the narratives of African American Presbyterians, including Francis Grimke and Gayraud Wilmore, that refashion today’s church and its theology to serve racial diversity, equity, and justice. Speakers will explore such history in relation to this moment of racial reckoning in the U.S.

Rev. Dr. Perzavia Praylow is Pastor of Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC and teaches African American History at Bowie State University (MD). Previously, she was an assistant professor of American History at Augusta University. Dr. Praylow earned a PhD in American History, an MA in Education Policy and a MA in History all from the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL), an MDiv at Columbia Theological Seminary, a Masters of Sacred Theology at Lutheran Theology Southern Seminary (SC), and a BA in History at Drew University. Dr. Praylow’s research focuses on 20th Century race relations, American religious history, African American social equality and the history of education. She is editing her first book project, Educating the Talented Tenth: Fisk University Students, the Politics of Race Leadership and the Struggle for African American Equality and is completing a manuscript on the mission work of Black women ruling elders in Black Presbyterian churches in the Carolinas. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Historical Society, is a member of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Mission Development Resource Committee, the DC Mayor’s Interfaith Council and has served on the strategy Team of Next Church and the Alumni Council of Columbia Theological Seminary. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Rev. Dr. Douglas H. Brown Clark is Visiting Assistant Professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses in American, African American, and Africana religious history as a part of the seminary’s Black Church Studies program. He also teaches church history at Lexington Theological Seminary. Clark received a BA from Davidson College and an MDiv from Vanderbilt Divinity School, where he earned second honors and served as Student Body President. He then earned a PhD at Vanderbilt University, where he studied American and African American religious history with a focus on race, civil rights, and reparations. His current book project, A Solid Black Hyphen: Race, Religion, Identity, and the Black Power Activism of Gayraud S. Wilmore, examines the history of religion in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, with a focus on late 1960s Black clergy advocates for reparations, especially Presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist Gayraud Wilmore. Clark’s research has benefited from support as a Research Fellow with the Presbyterian Historical Society, and as a Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Program in Theology and Practice. He chairs the southeast regional AAR’s History of Christianity section, and previously chaired Vanderbilt’s Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister.

TP 2305 - Class 13
2020-12-03 08:00 - 10:00
Exodus Preaching
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: K. Gilbert

TP 2305 - Class 14
2020-12-10 08:00 - 10:00
Justice: Abdicated, Compromised or Embraced
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: S. Feemster

TP 2305 - Class 15
2020-12-17 08:00 - 10:00
Group Project
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: S. Feemster

TP 2305 - Final Paper Due
2020-12-24 08:00 - 10:00
FINAL PAPER DUE 11:59 PM
In Search of Biblical Justice
Lecturer: S. Feemster

Communities of Hate: Why People Join Extremist Movements
2021-01-13 09:30 - 10:00
People salute Hitler while attending a Nazi Party parade in Nuremberg, Germany, 1937. Courtesy of Shawshots/Alamy Stock Photo
Personal grievances and hardship drove nurse Pauline Kneissler to become a member of the Nazi Party in 1937. Peer pressure eventually influenced her to kill on behalf of the German government. A half century later, loneliness and bullying left Americans Christian Picciolini and Angela King vulnerable to white supremacist organizations, which encouraged them to channel their emotions into hate and violence against Jews and other minority groups.
Amid a surge in antisemitic incidents more than 75 years after the Holocaust, join experts to learn what motivates people to join extremist groups. Explore how racism, conspiracy theories, and antisemitic myths can offer a sense of purpose and belonging to justify hate and violence.
Speakers
Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Arie Kruglanski, Holocaust Survivor, Terrorism Expert, and Psychology Professor, University of Maryland
Moderator
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum. You do not need a Facebook account to view our program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum’s Facebook page.

Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. 2021 Clergy & Lay Leadership Virtual Conference
2021-02-22 - 2021-02-25
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Virtual Conference 2021
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Holy Rage, Holy Hope: Radical Reimagination for Transforming Communities

“All who believed were together and had all things in common;. Acts 2:44 (NRSV)

Witnessing Whiteness with Kristopher Norris
2021-03-11 19:00 - 20:30
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Dr. Kristopher Norris, visiting professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, will discuss his new book “Witnessing Whiteness: Confronting White Supremacy in the American Church.” Can “mainstream” theology, largely by white theologians, witness to its own culture of Whiteness, and thereby its complicity in a system of maintaining white supremacy? Specifically, Dr. Norris will investigate the signs of white supremacy in major white theologians and critique them in light of liberation voices and ethics. Opportunity to engage the author will be part of the evening. Faculty and staff of the WTC and co-sponsors are invited.
Kristopher Norris is a scholar of Christian ethics and political theology. He is the author of Witnessing Whiteness: Confronting White Supremacy in America’s Churches (Oxford University Press, 2020) and currently serves as the Kreitler Visiting Professor of Environmental Ethics at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA. Previously he taught ethics and public theology at Wesley theological Seminary. His research focuses on politics, race, and moral formation in Christian community. His two previous books analyze the relationship of Christianity and politics, Kingdom Politics (2015) and Pilgrim Practices (2012). He has written over a dozen peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous popular pieces in publications like the Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Political Theology, Theology Today, International Relations, and The Christian Century. He completed his PhD from the University of Virginia in 2017 in Religious Studies. Norris is an ordained Baptist minister and holds Masters degrees from Candler School of Theology at Emory University and from Duke Divinity School.
This event is jointly sponsored by the Institute for Justice Formation at the John Leland Center for Theological Studies and the connected network of the Justice Formation Fellowship.

Annual Conference
2021-06-17 - 2021-06-18
The Institute for Justice Formation sponsors “In Search of Biblical Justice,” an annual conference for professors, pastors, students, and public advocates challenge us through worship, presentations, panels, and workshops to wake up and stay awake to God’s love for justice.

Click here to register.

Critical Race Theory: Friend, Foe, or Opportunity? Seminar on Saturdays
2021-10-30 10:00 - 2021-11-13 12:00 | Virtual
Critical Race Theory: Friend, Foe, or Opportunity? Seminar on Saturdays
October 30, 2021 – November 13, 2021
10:00 am – 12:00 pm noon
Join us beginning October 30, 2021 for this three-session seminar to explore the foundations, the debates and the implications of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Reflect, Revive, Rejoice: A Spiritual Gathering for Human Rights Day
2021-12-09 20:00 - 21:15
Join the Justice Revival team and special guest speaker Lisa Sharon Harper for an inspirational evening of worship, music, and community to honor Human Rights Day and commemorate the Advent season.

Together, we’ll reflect on the struggles for justice we’ve experienced and witnessed over the last year, celebrating hopeful steps forward and acknowledging the work that remains to be done. As a faith community concerned for the dignity and rights of our neighbors in need, we’ll consider how we can advance our nation’s journey toward justice.
Advent, which marks a new year in the Christian calendar, is at once a season of endings and beginnings, a time of reflection and hopeful anticipation.
We’ll use this time to lament the ways we’ve fallen short of God’s justice, to welcome Christ’s love in our lives and our world, and to recommit to the building of God’s kingdom on earth. We’ll seek solace and strength in the Christian story of God’s presence with us through Jesus Christ, and the promise of God’s deliverance from injustice and oppression.
Join us as we come together in the spirit of the Beloved Community, where the burdens of injustice and the joy of liberation are shared. Join us as we renew our strength in Christ to press forward toward a more loving and just society. Join us as we worship the God who is always making a Way for love and justice to prevail.
This Zoom webinar event is free and all are welcome.

Register here to reserve your spot today!

IN SEARCH OF BIBLICAL JUSTICE 2nd Annual Conference
2022-06-15 19:00 - 20:15, 2022-06-16 08:30 - 16:30, 2022-06-17 08:30 - 14:00 | Parkwood Baptist Church, 8726 Braddock Rd, Annandale, VA, 22003, United States
Register here: https://ijf-leland.org/conference/
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7-8:15pm

Thursday, June 16, 2022 8:30am-4:30pm (Box Lunch Fellowship)

Friday, June 17, 2022 8:30am-2pm

IJF Advisory Group Meeting
2022-11-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-12-19 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-01-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-02-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-03-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-04-17 10:00 - 12:00
Every third Monday from November to May we have our Advisory Group Meeting.
If Monday is a holiday, we will meet the following Tuesday.

January 2023 Newsletter
2023-01-17 - 2023-01-31
Our quarterly Newsletters highlight the activities and events that occurred across all channels of the institute.
