Webinar Series: The Challenge of Antiracism

THE CHALLENGE OF ANTIRACISM WEBINAR

Are we willing to stand where God stands?

This 4-session recorded webinar series seeks to offer participants language and frameworks they can use to talk about systemic racism and white supremacy in effective and nuanced ways. Participants will be engaged in an exploration of what antiracism is and how it will challenge the church to reckon with her historical and current investment in the ideology of white supremacy and systemic racism.

Facilitators: Jessica Vazquez Torres and Shawna Bowman

Moderator and Reflection Guide Writer: Laura M. Cheifetz

Length: 4 sessions, 90 minutes each

Recording Dates: The webinar was recorded live in October 2020

Method: You will be given access to the webinar, written transcripts, and reflection guides through the NEXT Church website, upon purchase

Session 1

What is systemic racism and how is it connected to the ideology of white supremacy?

The opening session of this webinar series will introduce frameworks to talk effectively about systemic racism and white supremacy and clarify how they relate to each other in the context of the United States.

Session 2

How has white Christianity in the United States served as legitimator and propagator of the ideology of white supremacy and systemic racism?

Building on the frameworks introduced in the first webinar, this second session will illustrate the ways “Unitedstatian” white Christianity has legitimized, both actively and passively, white supremacist ideas that perpetuate “white saviorism,” reinforce deficit thinking about people of color, and fail to challenge white nationalism, resulting in a misshaped Christian identity.

Session 3

Session 4

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RENTAL OPTIONS

	COST	ADD ONS	RENTAL LENGTH
INDIVIDUAL RATE	$89	–	45 days
GROUP RATE (includes 5 viewers)	$299	+$29 for each additional viewer	120 days
GROUP RATE with FACILITATION (includes 10 viewers)	$999	+$29 for each additional viewer	120 days

	COST	ADD ONS	RENTAL LENGTH
INDIVIDUAL RATE	$89	–	45 days
GROUP RATE (includes 5 viewers)	$299	+$29 for each additional viewer	120 days
GROUP RATE with FACILITATION (includes 10 viewers)	$999	+$29 for each additional viewer	120 days

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Individual Rate

This rental is designed for one individual who desires to rent and watch the webinar on their own for personal use.

Group Rate

This rental is designed for groups who want to experience the webinar as a collective. This package comes with 5 viewers. You can add additional viewers for $29 per person. The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase. For the 120-day period of the rental, members of the group will have full access to all four webinars and materials.

Group Rate with Facilitation

This rental is designed for groups who want to experience the webinar as a collective, with the assistance of a trained NEXT Church facilitator. This package comes with 10 viewers, who will also work with the facilitator. You can add additional viewers for $29 per person. The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase. For the 120-day period of the rental, members of the group will have full access to all four webinars and materials.

The group will receive 4 hours of facilitation with this standard package – to be configured to best meet the group’s needs. Groups can contract for more hours on an as needed basis once their facilitator has been assigned.

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Jessica Vazquez Torres

Facilitator

Jessica Vazquez Torres is a proven leader with 20 years-experience in antiracism, anti-oppression, and cultural competency workshop development and facilitation. She is deeply committed to dismantling the socially constituted structures and cultural dynamics that marginalize and minoritize People of Color, Queer, and immigrant communities and limit their access to the resources they need to thrive. Jessica, a 1.5-Generation ESL Queer Latina of Puerto Rican descent, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida, a Master of Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary, and a Master of Theological Studies from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She has co-authored a four-session adult study on the history of racism in the United States. Jessica has presented at the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Studies annual meeting as well as during the gathering of the Society for Christian Ethics. Her papers were titled: “The Suffering that Pulls Us Together & Pulls Us Apart: Moral Injury, Race, and the Challenge of Solidarity in Social Justice Work” (2019), “Does Moral Injury Have a Color? On Moral Injury and Race in the United States” (2014), “Race and Virtue: The Practice and Ethics of Race Based Caucusing” (2012). When not on a plane, Jessica attempts to become a bread baker, cultivates community with her spouse Laura, walks (sometimes for exercise), and sings songs badly with full abandon.

Shawna Bowman

Facilitator

Rev. Shawna Bowman is an artist and pastor doing ministry with the creative and justice-seeking folks at Friendship Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Shawna is Co-founder of Creation Lab, an Arts Incubator and Co-op Studio at the intersection of creativity, spirituality and prophetic imagination in Edgewater. Shawna is also Affiliate Faculty and Associate Director of Field Ed & Experiential Education at McCormick Theological Seminary and serves on the Board of Directors at The Night Ministry. They are an organizer and facilitator with Crossroads, also providing support to Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism (Chicago ROAR).

Laura M. Cheifetz

Moderator and Reflection Guide Writer

Rev. Laura M. Cheifetz began serving as the Assistant Dean of Admissions, Vocation, and Stewardship in August 2019. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a graduate of North Park University (MBA, ’11), McCormick Theological Seminary (M.Div. ’05), and Western Washington University (BA in Sociology, 2000). She is a contributing editor to Inheritance, a magazine amplifying the stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander Christian faith. She is the co-author and editor of “Church on Purpose: Reinventing Discipleship, Community, & Justice” (Judson Press) and contributor to “Race in a Post Obama America: The Church Responds” (Westminster John Knox Press), “Leading Wisdom: Asian and Asian North American Women Leaders” (WJK), “Here I Am: Faith Stories of Korean American Clergywomen” (Judson), and “Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color” (Judson). She is co-author of the “Forming Asian Leaders for North American Churches” entry in the “Religious Leadership” reference handbook (SAGE Publishing). An occasional contributor to various blogs, her piece “Race Gives Me Poetry” for “Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice” won the Associated Church Press 2016 Award of Excellence – Reporting and Writing: Personal Experience/1st Person Account (long format).

As Christian communities in the USA, particularly white ones, grapple with the ways God’s creation groans from the impact of White Supremacy and systemic racism, the words of the Belhar Confession demand our consideration, “the church must therefore stand by people in any form of suffering and need, which implies, among other things, that the church must witness against and strive against any form of injustice, so that justice may roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream; that the church as the possession of God must stand where the Lord stands, namely against injustice and with the wronged; that in following Christ the church must witness against all the powerful and privileged who selfishly seek their own interests and thus control and harm others.”

NEXT Church is committed to making resources accessible to everyone, regardless of church or personal budgets.

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Individual Rate quantity	Individual Rate	$89.00
Group Rate quantity	Group Rate	$299.00
Group with Facilitation quantity	Group with Facilitation	$999.00
Additional Viewers (Groups Only) quantity	Additional Viewers (Groups Only)	$29.00

THE CHALLENGE OF ANTIRACISM WEBINAR

Are we willing to stand where God stands?

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