What is religion? What is Hip Hop? Are they the same thing? Do they overlap? In this online course you’ll get a sense of how some individuals answer these questions, and you’ll get the tools you need to explore these questions for yourselves. This online course starts with some Read more
This online course offers a combination of webinars and curriculum resources that explore how one can teach social justice in the areas of: Race, poverty, and ethnicity Disability Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression Feminism Who should participate? Educators teaching in the areas of diversity, human rights, and social Read more
This on-demand webinar looks into the progress in implementing the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 through National Action Plans, using the case studies of the DRC, Nigeria and Cameroon. Watch this on-demand webinar Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources Read more
Learn why white Americans resist engaging or even acknowledging systemic racial injustice, and how to help them get past that and work to dismantle racist patterns and systems with this on-demand webinar led by Rev. J.C. Austin – Vice President for Christian Leadership Formation at Auburn Theological Seminary. Watch this Read more
This on-demand webinar explored Black Lives Matter, an activist group that media, schools and communities often struggle to understand. In this webinar you’ll learn about the roots of Black Lives Matter, its platform and its connections to past social justice movements. You’ll also gain tools for engaging students about Read more
Employing the hermeneutic of imagination is most difficult for seminary trained preachers exposed to exegetical principles, introduction to preaching processes, and those dreaded colleague critiques. This webinar with Womanist and Rhetorical Ethics specialist Rev. Kanisha Billingsley encourages you to dust off your creativity as you ignite your soul and your Read more
In this on-demand webinar Dr. Jonathan Krasner explores the experiences of Jewish activists in the Civil Rights Movement. Presenters: Dr. Jonathan Krasner and Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber Watch this FREE on-demand webinar from ReformJudaism.org. Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or Read more
In view of ongoing unrest in the world, including but not limited to racialized violence in the U.S., as well as the distress many felt during and after the MCC General Conference, especially as it may have reflected the continuing power of white privilege/supremacy, misogyny, and U.S. domination/imperialism, the need Read more
The book Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Orbis Books, 2015) was written by Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas (Episcopal priest and professor at Goucher College, Maryland) as one black mother’s response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and others. She goes back into the history of the Read more
Prominent themes of this course include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Read more