Critical Race Theory: Friend, Foe, or Opportunity? Seminar on Saturdays
2021-10-30 10:00 - 2021-11-13 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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, 2023-05-15 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.

May 2023 Newsletter
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-30

Summer – MF 4335 – Critical Engagement with Biblical Justice
2023-05-01
The purpose of this course is to explore the intersection between Western moral reflection and contemporary critical justice theory toward a philosophically informed Christian moral apologetic.
Summer course start dates vary by course.
The Graduate Certificate in Biblical Justice Formation (GCBJF) is a program of study designed for students interested in what the Bible has to say about justice, and what relevance that has for people, particularly Christians, today. The program is ideal for people across all vocations who wish to point ways forward for everyone seeking to think and act in harmony with God–a community of equals pursuing Biblical justice in the world today. The GCBJF is taught on the master’s level and is designed to be completed in two years part-time or one year full-time.
For more details, click on the link below.

3rd Annual Conference
2023-06-09 - 2023-06-10
Throughout the prophetic literature in the Bible, God rejects Israel’s feast and fast because the people ignored the biblical demands of justice in their social, moral, and economic lives (Isaiah 1: 11-31; 58: 5b-6; Amos 5: 21-24; Jeremiah 7:1-11; Ezekiel 8-9; Micah 6:6-8; and Malachi 2). The Bible discloses the mandate for Christians to seek first the Kingdom of God and the eternal beauty of His justice (Matthew 6:33). However, centuries after God’s revelations, ideas of governance suggest a disconnect between biblical justice, human rights, and civil rights. The Institute for Justice Formation is seeking to address the apparent gap separating biblical justice, human rights, and civil rights in the light of critical biblical engagement. We take up the responsibility to bring together the academy and the church toward a biblical vision of human flourishing.
To register for the conference please click on the link below.

Book Signing by Dr. Drew G. I. Hart
2023-06-09 - 2023-06-10
The Institute for Justice Formation invites you to a special book signing with Dr. Drew G. I. Hart. during the 2023 Annual Conference.
Join Dr. Hart on during the conference on Friday, June 9th as he gives the evening sermon, and on Saturday, June 10th Dr. Hart will lead the workshop titled: “Connecting Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Biblical Justice: What must we do now?”
To register for the 2023 Annual Conference please click the link below.

July 2023 Newsletter
2023-07-01 - 2023-07-30

Fall – MF 4339 – Justice Formation Externship
2023-08-21
This externship will allow students to develop and implement a worshipful, educational, or advocative justice initiative in an experiential learning environment that offers real-world insight into theoretical topics learned in the graduate certificate.
Fall courses begin August 2023. Students and partners determine meeting days and times throughout the semester.
The Graduate Certificate in Biblical Justice Formation (GCBJF) is a program of study designed for students interested in what the Bible has to say about justice, and what relevance that has for people, particularly Christians, today. The program is ideal for people across all vocations who wish to point ways forward for everyone seeking to think and act in harmony with God–a community of equals pursuing Biblical justice in the world today. The GCBJF is taught on the master’s level and is designed to be completed in two years part-time or one year full-time.
For more details, click on the link below.

Fall – EH 3205 – In Search of Biblical Justice
2023-08-21
Students in this course will identify some characteristic features of the Bible’s teachings on justice revealed through God’s self-disclosure and reflect upon their availability to be a catalyst for Biblical Justice in our world.
The Graduate Certificate in Biblical Justice Formation (GCBJF) is a program of study designed for students interested in what the Bible has to say about justice, and what relevance that has for people, particularly Christians, today. The program is ideal for people across all vocations who wish to point ways forward for everyone seeking to think and act in harmony with God–a community of equals pursuing Biblical justice in the world today. The GCBJF is taught on the master’s level and is designed to be completed in two years part-time or one year full-time.
For more details, click on the link below.

IJF Fall Webinar Series
2023-10-01
The Institute for Justice Formation will host a series of discussions for professors, pastors, students, and public advocates to challenge us through worship, presentations, panels, and workshops to wake up and stay awake to God’s love for justice.
More information coming soon!

October 2023 Newsletter
2023-10-01 08:00 - 2023-10-31 17:00
Our quarterly Newsletters highlight the activities and events that occurred across all channels of the institute.

For the full article click on the link below:
IJF NEWSLTR – Oct 23 – V.1 (1)

IJF Advisory Group Meeting
2023-11-20 14:00 - 15:30
Meets every 3rd Monday of the month.

Fall Webinar 2023
2023-12-02 09:00 - 11:00
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Inez Tuck, IJF Advisory Group member and author of Florence and Mary: Nurse Leaders and Heroines of the Crimean War. Rev. Dr. Robert Wallace, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of McLean in McLean, VA will interview Dr. Tuck on her works in the book.

Spring – MF 4333 – Justice, Church, and Society
2024-01-22
This course will challenge students to bring the transformational potential of the biblical texts to bear on critical current justice context as regarding the distribution of social benefits and penalties, the exercise of legitimate power; fairness and balance; and honoring the rights or entitlements of people made in the image of God. Reflecting upon and contrasting what we love and what God loves, students will critique religious behaviors congruent or incongruent with Biblical Justice.
The Graduate Certificate in Biblical Justice Formation (GCBJF) is a program of study designed for students interested in what the Bible has to say about justice, and what relevance that has for people, particularly Christians, today. The program is ideal for people across all vocations who wish to point ways forward for everyone seeking to think and act in harmony with God–a community of equals pursuing Biblical justice in the world today. The GCBJF is taught on the master’s level and is designed to be completed in two years part-time or one year full-time.
For more details, click on the link below.

Winter 2024 IJF Webinars
2024-02-17 09:00 - 10:30
In this 2-part series, Justice Formation Fellowship Pastors will discuss lessons learned and justice initiatives proposed by their congregations after reading Crossing the Tracks by Drew Hill.

Crossing Tracks that Divide Homes, Churches, Neighborhoods, and Workplaces
2024-02-17 09:00 - 11:00 | Memorial Baptist Church, 3455 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA, 22207
Rev. Dr. Drew Hill, author of Crossing the Tracks, will speak about his grandfather’s stand for justice. He will be joined by several guest who will share how this book informed their perspective about God’s requirement that believers engage our agency to overcome racial division.
To Register, click the link: https://ijf-leland.org/crossing

Fall 2024 Webinar
2024-11-23 09:30 - 11:00
During this webinar, Kathleen Arban, LCSW, CCTP will moderate a discussion between Rev. Carita Brown and Dr. Joan Turkus as they reflect on the book Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T. Geronimus.

IJF Workshop
2024-12-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Leland – Arlington Campus, 1306 N Highland St, Arlington, VA, 22201, United States
Please join the Institute for Justice Formation on
Saturday, December 7, 2024 from 9am – 11am EST
Workshop Highlights:

Graduate Certificate in Biblical Justice Formation (GCBJF) – hear from current Professors and Pastors as they introduce courses offered in this program
Q&A – we will open the floor for any questions you may have about student enrollment options for GCBJF
Want to get involved? – explore how Leland might support congregational ministries for clergy, laity, and faculty personnel

This event is online only. Please join via zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84560484214

5th Annual In Search for Biblical Justice Conference
2025-05-16 10:30 - 2025-05-17 12:30
