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Education & Justice
Please Join Us for Our Freedom Rising Salons
Building on the success of the Revolutionary Love Conference, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new Freedom Rising Salons! Throughout the year, we’ll offer more regular gatherings—each focused on a different theme—putting our senior minister, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, in conversation with leaders who will deepen your engagement with that month’s theme. This year-long virtual conversation series will feature thought leaders, poets, organizers, artists and modern prophets reflecting on crucial justice issues, addressing our nation’s most pressing moral concerns, and what we all can do to rise and meet them.
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Education & Justice
Please Join Us for Becoming Reparations People: A Salon
Faith communities around the U.S. and world have committed to making reparations, to healing the breach between those congregations and the Black and Indigenous peoples harmed by their religious institution. The Collegiate Church took its first steps on its reparations journey in 2009 with the Healing of Turtle Island, a public apology offered to and accepted by representatives of the Lenape peoples forced from their homelands by the Dutch who arrived in Manaháhtaan in the early 17th century. In 2020, Middle Church continued our reparations journey by investigating the shameful history of our founding denomination, the Dutch Reformed Church, and sharing what we have learned so far with our church community.
In this salon facilitated by members of Middle’s Reparations Task Force, we will share what we have learned and are learning about “becoming reparations people,” how even in the still-early phases of trying to heal the breach, the revolutions have begun–within our institution, within our congregation, and, as we reflect and discern together in our multi-ethnic community, within ourselves. Participants in this salon are invited to learn about, reflect on, and share what becoming reparations people might mean to them.
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Through your gifts, you show up for LOVE across the country and in our own sanctuary. Partner with us to reclaim and reframe Christianity in all spaces—including the digital ones. The LOVE we sing, preach, and march for is not a sentimental kind of love, but a powerful love that demands we change ourselves and our world. This love demands nothing less than transformation.
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Butterfly Outreach Ministry Is Back!
Help distribute food on the Lower East Side in New York City! Make new friends who care deeply about ensuring that everyone has enough to eat. It’s a wonderful way to get more connected at Middle, and offer a crucial service to the neighborhood.
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Fierce Love
Inspired by the Ubuntu philosophy “I am who I am because we are who we are” and explained through stories from her own life, Dr. Lewis details the nine daily practices necessary for transforming ourselves, our communities, and our world at large. From learning to put down our emotional baggage to speaking truth to power to resisting joyfully, Dr. Lewis gives readers a renewed sense of the power they have to create caring communities; to stand up for the vulnerable; and to change our shared story from one of anxiety, anger, and divisiveness to one of mindfulness, compassion, and unity.
Jacqui’s Fierce Love is a manifesto for all generations, a universalist’s vision for mending our broken hearts and fractured world.
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Middle’s COVID Guidelines
As we begin to gather again in person, it’s essential that we continue to do everything we can to ensure the heath and safety of all. Learn how Middle is loving our neighbors in this moment, and how you can partner in that work.
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Do you yearn to not just belong, but be celebrated for exactly who you are? Do you want a community of folks committed to radical love and justice? Wherever you live, you can call Middle Church home.
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This movement needs you! We need your time and talent, but we also need your resources. Make a contribution today and help us be midwives to love and justice.