Spirituality of the Black Lives Matter movement
Sunday, January 17, 2016
9:30 a.m. in the Religious Education Building, 12 W. Franklin St.

Religious Education for All class with video presentation by Rev. Alma Faith Crawford, Founder and Pastor of the Chicago-based on-line Congregation for Black Lives. Rev. Crawford is a leading intellectual among United Church of Christ ministers and was formerly a professor at Starr King School for the Ministry, a Unitarian Universalist seminary in Berkeley, California.

40 Days of #BlackLivesMatter
January 15-February 23, 2016
First Unitarian Church of Baltimore
(Universalist & Unitarian)

From the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to the birthday of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, First Unitarian Church of Baltimore will mark #BlackLives Matter in our community. Each day, we will offer one opportunity to engage in study and reflection, direct service, or public witness to our aspirations to be transformed as a whole people on a journey together.

“Forty” is an image drawn from Hebrew tradition to signify a very long time. The story is told of a deluge lasting forty days and forty nights, during which a faithful remnant of living beings, gathered by Noah, brought forward a transformed life of the whole planet. The followers of Moses were said to have wandered in the wilderness for forty years as a part of their journey toward liberation. The prophet Jesus of Nazareth was said to have spent forty days in the wilderness fasting before he was fully prepared to engage his public ministry to the good news of a transformed and transforming way of being in the world, a way of healing and community building, of teaching and justice making. We look forward to the changes in our identity, relationships and effectiveness in the world that will come from periods of concentrated spiritual activity.