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Community Organizing, Healthcare, Housing Justice, Racial Justice

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” screening December 15th

December 10, 2015 Robyn Hyden

The next film in the 99 Films Series, presented by Birmingham Institute for Social Change (BISC), will be hosted at Beloved on Tuesday, December 15th.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” is narrated from the point of view of a young girl in New Orleans. It shares her experiences living through Hurricane Katrina, with her family and community binding together to overcome the injustices that followed.

This is the third film in BISC’s five-film series which focuses on land, cultural identity and community. These five films (Daughters of the Dust, My Brooklyn, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Holding Ground, and Gaining Ground) all serve in BISC’s popular education platform to address common themes and issues of land as sacred space; cultural identity, migration, and community; and gentrification, resistance and just transition in Birmingham black and brown communities, and tying our lived experiences in with other marginalized peoples in global sites of resistance.

RSVP and more info on Facebook.

Amnesty International Write for Rights December 7-10

November 29, 2015 Jennifer Sanders

One letter can change a life.

Beloved Community Church, The Abbey and Saint Junia UMC invite you to participate in an ecumenical Advent effort to support human rights.

We will be writing letters for Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign, which focuses this year on 12 human rights cases around the globe. Our letters can free Prisoners of Conscience (people imprisoned for their beliefs or identity), halt executions, stop torture and change lives.

We’ll have a letter writing table set up at our next door neighbor, The Abbey coffee shop (131a 41st St. S, Birmingham) from 5:00-7:00 pm on December 7, 9, and 10. Information about the cases, sample letters, and writing materials will be provided.

Join us to Write for Rights!

Lessons from the early church: learning to listen

November 15, 2015 Angie Wright

Imagine that you are part of a small church. Imagine that your small church is racially and culturally diverse.

Some people in the church have ancestral roots in the land where you live and the others come from foreign lands.

Some speak one language and the others speak another.

Some come from the dominant religious background and the others come from another.

One group has historically had the upper hand of privilege. The other has historically been looked down upon and denied basic human rights.

I’m talking about the earliest church. It’s their story as much as it is ours.

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She Matters forum at First Congregational UCC

November 12, 2015 Nancy Sales

WHAT: An open forum engaging the community-at-large, community organizations and community leadership in healthy discussion concerning the documented incidences of police brutality involving African American women in 2015 around the United States.

WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2015, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

WHERE: First Congregational Church, 1024 Center St. North, Birmingham, AL 35204

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Interfaith service for fair lending November 4th

October 30, 2015 Robyn Hyden

RSVP + more details on Facebook!

“A Generous Faith” Conference November 5th-6th

October 30, 2015 Jennifer Sanders

The Magic City Acceptance Project’s Communities of Faith Committee and the Human Rights Campaign Alabama invite you to the inaugural “A Generous Faith: Walking With Our LGBTQ+ Community” conference on November 5-6 at Temple Emanu-El and Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham.

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Recycling Summit at Beloved Tuesday, November 10th

October 26, 2015 Our Beloved

RSVP and more info at AEConline.org/RecycleSummit.

“My Brooklyn” film screening Tuesday, October 20th, 7 pm

October 5, 2015 Robyn Hyden

RSVP and more info on Facebook.

AL-TN UCC Meeting this weekend: “A Conversation on Race”

September 29, 2015 Nancy Sales

You are invited to the Alabama-Tennessee Association Annual Meeting at Covenant Community Church Friday October 2nd through Saturday, 3rd, October 3rd, 2015. This meeting will begin on Friday with a dinner at 6 pm and will conclude on Saturday afternoon around 3.

On Friday evening, we will hear a keynote address from Rev. Traci Blackmon (shown above), pastor of Christ the King Church UCC in Florisant, Missouri, who is a voice for justice in Ferguson and beyond. We will also enjoy worship led by Rev. JR Finney and the worship team at Covenant.

Saturday, we will have workshop discussions on race and will continue the business of the AL/TN Association of the UCC.

For details and a registration form, please contact Mr. Joe Griffin at Covenant Community Church, 205-599-3363.

“Recovering Racist” film screening October 9th, 6:30 pm

September 21, 2015 Our Beloved

You are invited to the public premiere of a film featuring our Beloved Rev. Lawton Higgs, about his journey from a racist upbringing to founding a multiracial church. This screening is free and open to all, Friday, October 9th, 6:30 pm at Beloved.

More details from the Kickstarter campaign: “In 1984, the Rev. R. Lawton Higgs, Sr. had a religious epiphany standing in the turn lane of 8th Avenue N., in Birmingham, Alabama.

‘I discovered that my beliefs were incompatible with God’s call to love one another,’ he says. In that moment, Lawton became a ‘recovering racist,’ and in the years to follow, he founded a multicultural, multiracial church in the heart of downtown Birmingham, ministered to the homeless, and became an advocate for the poor.”

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