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June 1 - The Lydia Project at Kwanzaa Church - Reverend Paula Sanders
Lydia Women's Empowerment Ministries is a partner ministry to Kwanzaa Community Church in North Minneapolis. From the inception of Kwanzaa Community Church ten years ago, the women have stepped forward to voice their needs as they work to strengthen their families
and communities. In the early years, the women asked for Recovery Circles, women’s groups that made possible the recovery of humanity from the effects of bruising racism, sexism and class-ism in America. Two years ago, many of the women’s needs and ideas were synthesized into a new program: Lydia Women’s Empowerment Ministries – which gathers women of the community to work together for spiritual growth, family wellness, social change and economic empowerment. The Lydia Project is led by the Reverend Paula Sanders, the first Minister of Word and Sacrament to be ordained at Kwanzaa Community Church. This Sunday we'll have Reverend Sanders with us to tell us more about The Lydia Project.
Kwanzaa Church
The Lydia Project
and here are some other community partners doing good work in the city:
Juxtaposition Arts
Minneapolis Mad Dads
Peace Jam
photo courtesy of Kwanzaa Church
May 25 - Festival of Homiletics - Reverend Tim Hart Andersen
This month Minneapolis is host to the 2008 Festival of Homiletics – days and nights of workshops, music, and lectures to help faith communities in their development of transformational preaching. The list of presenters is a Who's Who of authors and theologians including Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Jim Wallis. Join us this week as we visit with Reverend Tim Hart Andersen of Westminster Presbyterian Church, one of the hosts of this year's Festival of Homiletics.
Festival of Homiletics
Westminster Presbyterian
Central Lutheran Church
image courtesy of Westminster Presbyterian Church
May 18 - Felon Disenfranchisement - Chris Uggen and Ochen Kaylan
Did you know that the United States is the only democracy in the world that denies former prisoners the right to vote? This week we'll be joined by two experts on felon disenfranchisement: one is an author/professor from the University of MN who teaches about these issues in a classroom setting. The other is a writer/producer who teaches about these issues in radio documentaries and theater performance. Professor Chris Uggen is Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He studies crime, law, and deviance - especially how former prisoners manage to put their lives back together. With Professor Uggen, we'll also have award-winning radio documentary producer Ochen Kaylan. Kaylan created the critically-acclaimed one-man show on felon disenfranchisement titled “I Voted for Gummi Bears” - an entertaining, yet highly informative piece of theater that will be featured in the new performance series “SPIRIT IN THE HOUSE” opening later this month. We'll visit with Professor Uggen and Ochen Kaylan to talk about the complicated issue of prisoner voting rights.
Chris Uggen on felon disenfranchisement
Spirit in the House
I Voted for Gummi Bears
image courtesy of chrisuggen.blogspot.com
image courtesy of ochen kaylan
May 11 - Faith and Journalism - Steven Scott
Steve Scott was formerly the religion editor and local news reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He's also a past visiting scholar in religion journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He currently covers religion, faith and ethics for the new web news community MinnPost.com. Considered an expert on the many ways that faith and political policy intersect, Scott is a frequent panel moderator and talk show guest.
Steve Scott profile
info on Minn Post.com
Bethel University conference on journalism and faith
image courtesy of www.minnpost.com