The Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice invites you to join a five-week study of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Penned from his Birmingham jail cell in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King’s powerful letter continues to speak to us today. All are welcome.
The study will meet on Tuesday evenings, April 9 - May 14, from 7 - 8:30 p.m. over Zoom. For more information, contact Warren Gould.
Each session will include introductory remarks to help frame the week’s study and guided discussion in breakout groups. The study will explore the racialized issues in Birmingham at the time of Dr. King's letter and those that persist today here in Durham, NC. We will consider what motivated white (and Black) clergy in Birmingham to urge Dr. King to wait and the extent to which those motivations remain prevalent today. And we will examine the American church today and the degree to which white Christians in particular see racialization as a matter of concern and, when they do, seek to be brothers and sisters united through Christ in the service of racial healing, education, and justice work. All are welcome.
About the Partnership
The Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice unites churches and individuals to bring about racial justice in our community and our world. Blacknall is among the four representatives of Durham-based churches and organizations that comprise this partnership.
One way the Partnership accomplishes its mission is through studies such as this one, educating and organizing around racial justice issues to generate dialogue that promotes truth-telling, forgiveness, and healing.
The Partnership is a Christian organization whose beliefs are motivated and guided by the life and work of Jesus Christ. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ, as we seek to expose and resist the dehumanizing effects of racialization. Our beliefs align with 1 John 1:3: “That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ” (NKJ).
Therefore, by the working of the Holy Spirit, we seek to build unity through Christ as expressed in Ephesians 1:9-10: “He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.” With Dr. King, we declare that “Our goal [of creating] a beloved community… will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”