Do you want to expand your knowledge of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? Connect more deeply with the beloved community seeking an end to racism, inequity, and injustice? Then consider attending these upcoming events in our community!
Ongoing
Bibliographic Resources for MLK, DEIB, and RRR
Theme Bibliography: At the beginning of this new year, we celebrate the heritage of MLK—Martin Luther King, Jr. We also launch a renewed focus at Luther Seminary on DEIB—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
The final acronym, RRR, is one we’ve made up to emphasize a new focus on Reconciliation and Reversing Racism—all three foci so much needed in today’s church and world. As such we’ve selected important books, journal articles, and other links on these subjects.
Find the bibliographic resources for MLK, DEIB, and RRR.
Available now in the Luther Seminary Library: New books on justice, politics, social issues.
April 2023
Freedom Rising Conference
April 28, 2023
The undemocratic takeover of our judicial system is just the tip of a movement that seeks to force a pluralistic country to conform to fundamenalist Christianity. It’s also based in fundamental lies: We live in abundance, not scarcity. People deserve autonomy over whether they create new life. The Earth is not a limitless resource for us to plunder. And we do not have to live by the vision of founders who named Indigenous siblings “savages,” treated women as property and legislated Black folks as ⅗ of a person
Learn more about the Freedom Rising Conference.
May 2023
Multifaith Leadership Workshop
May 6
“If we truly see ourselves as interconnected, we must endeavor for others as we endeavor for ourselves,” writes Executive Director of Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program Simran Jeet Singh. If “endeavor for ourselves” and for greater self-discovery is inherently wrapped up in “endeavor for others” and for greater interpersonal engagement, then, as Pope Francis proclaims, “our great challenge is to create a culture of encounter which encourages individuals and groups to share the richness of their traditions and experience; to break down walls and to build bridges.” Cultivating a culture of encounter, grounded in curiosity and wonder, strives for a world in which “we can also speak with those who think differently, as well as those who hold other beliefs, who do not have the same faith.” Advancing common public goods in such a world embraces the reality that great minds do not – and need not – always think alike but requires them to think alongside one another in order to address the urgent matters of our day.
Register for the Multifaith Leadership Workshop.
Do you know of an event promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging that you want to share with the Luther Seminary community? Please submit it to Dan Sassenberg at dsassenberg001@luthersem.edu.
Calendar maintained by the DEIB Committee.