Making Sense of the Senseless -- A Conversation about Charleston and Racial (In)Justice in America

Making Sense of the Senseless -- A Conversation about Charleston and Racial (In)Justice in America

President Obama delivering the eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who along with eight others was killed in the Charleston shooting.

Hi friends,

We'll be gathering at the Saluda church this Sunday at 5pm and heading down to Lake Sheila (weather permitting) for Stone Soup. Bring a bathing suit if you want to swim. There are some picnic tables but feel free to bring a lawn chair if you have one. Also, please bring something for a picnic potluck to share. 

Over the next several weeks, we'll be talking about race relations in America and exploring possibilities for racial reconciliation, beginning with some open dialogue about the tragic shooting in Charleston on June 17. 

We will also be looking at hymns from the African-American gospel tradition and exploring how those hymns might be understood and experienced by those of us outside that tradition. 

Hope to see you all there.

Stone Soup love,

Steven

Ephesians 2:14-16 (NRSV)

For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 

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