Faith and Racial Healing: Embracing Truth, Justice, and Restoration

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Session 1: One-Day Retreat: Community-Building & Self-Reflection
Session 2: Session 1: Review of History of Racial Injustice
Session 3: Session 2: The Middle Passage
Session 4: Session 3: Reading and Discussion of Slave Narratives
Session 5: Session 4: Convict Leasing
Session 6: Session 5: Confessing Our History of Lynching
Session 7: Session 6: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Equal Education
Session 8: Immersion Experience (to be determined by the group)
Session 9: Session 7: Theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Session 10: Session 8: Guest Speaker and Discerning Next (Action) Steps

Participants work in small groups as they read and discuss slave narratives, learning from the faith, wisdom, and resilience of those who were enslaved.