Coming in September:
The #Reparations special issue
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In the upcoming September 2024 issue, the Outlook will take on a contentious topic: reparations.
People are quick to get defensive when harm-doing is brought to light and they feel implicated. But the goal of reparative work is healing and transformation.
All benefit from honestly acknowledging what is broken and then working towards repair. Broken relationships, broken systems and structures, affect and oppress us all.
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In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
This special issue of the Outlook will highlight the important work of reparations and its goal of transformative healing for all — a goal we can and should embrace.
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Contributors for this issue include:
- Anthony Jermaine Ross-Allam, Director of the Center for the Repair of Historical Harms for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- William Yoo, Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History at Columbia Theological Seminary
- Paul Roberts, President of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary
- Larissa Kwong Abazia, Executive Director of NEXT Church
- Chris Dela Cruz, Director of Youth Initiatives of Together Lab
Order extra copies of this special issue for use in independent study, congregation-wide discussions, Sunday School classes or small groups. Extra copies are available for pre-order now for just $5/copy.
Orders placed by Friday, August 2, 2024, will be delivered in early September. Supplies are limited, so reserve your extra copies today!
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