NEXT Church presents this 4-week webinar series seeks to offer participants language and frameworks they can use to talk about systemic racism and white supremacy in effective and nuanced ways. Participants will be engaged in an exploration of what antiracism is and how it will challenge the church to reckon with her historical and current investment in the ideology of white supremacy and systemic racism.

As Christian communities in the USA, particularly white ones, grapple with the ways God’s creation groans from the impact of White Supremacy and systemic racism, the words of the Belhar Confession demand our consideration, “the church must therefore stand by people in any form of suffering and need, which implies, among other things, that the church must witness against and strive against any form of injustice, so that justice may roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream; that the church as the possession of God must stand where the Lord stands, namely against injustice and with the wronged; that in following Christ the church must witness against all the powerful and privileged who selfishly seek their own interests and thus control and harm others.”

Each 90-minute webinar will consist of 60 minutes of presentation and teaching followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.

Jessica Vazquez Torres, Teacher

Teacher: Jessica Vazquez Torres

Date: Sundays, October 4, 11, 18, 25

Time: 4:00-5:30pm EDT (1:00-2:30pm PDT)

Method: All webinars will be hosted on Zoom

Cost: $89 per person