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May 2017
FaithJustice Forum: A Nation of Immigrants
Forum will address immigration policy in America, including how immigration has evolved, the rights of immigrants, and how people of faith are called to respond. Speakers include Erin McKenney, Executive Director, Just Neighbors Becky Monroe, Stop Hate Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Mike Hoefer, Immigration Policy Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver, Moderator RSVP: www.annandale-umc.org/faithjusticeforum.
Find out more »October 2017
FaithJustice Forum: Losing Our Religion? Millennials, Social Justice, and the Church
Panel Discussion featuring: Amy Preston Page, FaithJustice Foundation Michelle Whittaker, Democracy Initiative Rev. Peter Kwon, Annandale UMC Minister Jordan Brown, Wave Church, Chesapeake, VA Moderator: Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver, FaithJustice Foundation Recommended Reading: Robert P. Jones, The End of White Christian America (ch. 4-5) Robert Jones and Daniel Cox, "Doing Church and Doing Justice" Pew Research Center, "America's Changing Religious Landscape" [googleapps domain="docs" dir="forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclDnG58jNMApNRdQJhB8HmtN27AwTDB8DNcOfzs7OiYqWMPQ/viewform" query="embedded=true" width="760" height="900" /]
Find out more »January 2018
April 2018
Race and Poverty in America
This panel discussion will discuss race and poverty in America fifty years after MLK. Today, America continues to confront racial and economic inequality fifty years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while leading sanitation workers on strike in Memphis and fifty years after the Kerner Commission cited racism and lack of economic opportunity as the cause of civil unrest. Join us in person or online as we discuss the significance of Dr. King's legacy of fighting racial…
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October 2018
FaithJustice Forum: Grace and Justice on Death Row
FaithJustice Forum: Grace and Justice on Death Row Author Brian Stolarz in conversation with Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver and Rev. Chenda Innis Lee Sunday, October 14, 2018 12:30-2pm Annandale United Methodist Church Annandale, VA 22003 Brian Stolarz is a criminal defense attorney with LeClairRyan in Alexandria, VA. For over 8 years, he worked pro bono to free Alfred Dewayne Brown, an African American man falsely accused of killing a police officer, from Texas' notorious Death Row. His book, Grace and Justice…
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