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

This session educates participants about lynchings and terrorism inflicted upon Black communities, and how these events continue to affect communities today. At the end of this session, participants will creatively connect their learning to the Christian practice of confession.