Course Description: This gathering of faith leaders from the African American community will consider the future of the African American Church and how it can become a more inclusive faith community that welcomes and embraces our LGBTQ siblings. Seminar leaders and participants will reflect together on how we can develop a dialogue with mainline African American congregations to birth a movement that transforms the church into a radically inclusive faith community.
Participants are expected to prepare to engage the speakers and seminar questions by securing and reading the following resources prior to arrival on campus:
- Yvette Flunder, Where the Edge Gathers: A Theology of Homiletic and Radical Inclusion
- Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Horace Griffin, Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbian and Gays in Black Churches
- Ralph Basui Watkins. resources posted on www.futureofblackchurch.org
Location: Harrington Center and other locations on the campus of Columbia Theological Seminary
Schedule:
| Tuesday April 25 |
2:00 – 4:30 PM |
Dinner 6:00 – 7:30 PM |
| Wednesday April 26 |
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM |
Dinner 6:00 – 7:30 PM |
| Thursday April 27 |
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM |
Dinner on your own |
| Friday April 28 |
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
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Program Fee: $175, includes most meals (see below).
Housing: Guest rooms are available in the Harrington Center on Campus. Room rates are for three nights (Tuesday arrival – Friday departure) and include tax. Queen suites ($304.56), regular single rooms (two twin beds, $268.92) and double rooms (shared room, two twins, $173.34/person/night) are available.
Meals: The following seven meals are included with program fee: (dinner Tuesday and Wednesday; breakfast Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and lunch on Wednesday and Thursday).
