Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/24/2021
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Andrew Lyke encourages us to leave white fragility behind and enter into “brave spaces” where the devastating effects of white supremacy on people of color can be confronted as people of faith. Brave space demands patience and self-examination. It calls forth the power of human empathy that bonds people of good will. Forming such bonds advances the building of the “Beloved Community” and makes us anti-racist people of faith. Being anti-racist does not require a bullhorn, pulpit, microphone, or podium. It means being an ally in the struggle for equal justice and an agent of racial healing. This conversation offers practical steps to racial healing and reconciliation. This program is subsidized by the Margaret Sloan Jennings Memorial Foundation for Social Change. Fee: Donation
Presenter: Andrew Lyke is a Catholic ministry consultant, freelance writer, blogger and author, former campus minister, pioneer of Catholic Marriage & Family Ministry, Anti-racism Activist, poet, storyteller, husband, father, and grandfather. He authored “Forging a Commitment to Love All: Creating an Anti-Racist Church,” published in Liguorian Magazine in February 2011, and “Dear White Catholics: It’s time to be anti-racist and leave white fragility behind” published online in November, 2020, in America Magazine. He is a member of the Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) of the Joliet Franciscans.