
The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich
RECORDING: "THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION DURING RACIAL CRISIS"

Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Currie
September 18, 2022 | Frampton Fellowship Hall
Dr. Currie, father of our own Chris Currie, is Professor of Theology Emeritus from Union Presbyterian Seminary, Charlotte, NC, where he served as Dean from 2001-2014. Prior to that he served pastorates in Brenham, Texas, and Kerrville, Texas.
FOCUS ON COMMUNITY MINISTRY PARTNERS AND RACIAL EQUITY
We all know that the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread illness and death as well as extreme economic dislocation and hardship. In addition, the pandemic also exposed long-standing and pre-existing racial disparities in healthcare and other areas of American life. The Community Ministry Committee recently asked our community partner organizations how they were addressing these disparities and the related issues of inclusiveness and racism. Here are the responses we have received so far:
St. Thomas Community Health Center
JLNO Diaper Bank
Kinship Senior Center
STAIR (Start the Adventure in Reading)
Cafe Reconcile
YMCA of Greater New Orleans
RESOURCES
BOOKS
- How To Fight Racism – Courageous Christianity and the Journey toward Racial Justice – Jemar Tisby
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
- Waking Up White – Debbie Irving (2017 PC(USA) Co-Moderators’ “Book Club” pick)
- Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice – By Kerry Connelly
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher To the Whitest Denomination in the US – Lenny Duncan
PODCASTS
- Brene Brown “Unlocking Us”
- Episode June 10, 2020 with Austin Channing Brown
- Episode June 3, 2020 with Ibram X. Kendi
- On Being
- Episode 843: Resmaa Menakem – “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence”
- Episode 847: Eula Bliss – “Talking About Whiteness”
- Episode 849: Isabel Wilkerson – “This History is Long; This History is Deep”
- Episode 851: Jason Reynolds – “Fortifying Imagination”
MOVIES
ARTICLES/WEBSITES
- “Why I Stopped Talking About Racial Reconciliation and Started Talking About White Supremacy” By Erna Kim Hackett
- Christian Reformed Church Background and resources on “The Belhar Confession”
- “PC(USA) General Assembly Affirms that Black lives matter; pledges to work against system racism” by Leslie Scanlon, Presbyterian Outlook
- Unbound – An Interactive Journal on Christian Social Justice
- Dismantling Structural Racism – 21 day Racial Justice Challengefrom Presbyterian Mission Agency
- Office of the PC(USA) General Assembly: Stated Clerk Remembers Victims of Racial Violence