Shalom Richmond • Lesson Three
Jan 30th, 2012 by mr.b
An Overview of Poverty, Race, and Jurisdiction in Metropolitan Richmond • John V. Moeser Senior Fellow, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond and Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University • January 29, 2012
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Click here to download Dr. Moeser’s Presentation Notes
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“There is a direct relationship between a person’s grasp and experience of God’s grace, and his or heart for justice and the poor.” Tim Keller, Introduction to Generous Justice
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HOMEWORK
- Read the “Redlining Richmond” report
- Using information from the lectures presented by Bill Martin and John Moeser, engage your family and at least one person outside your family in a ‘did you know’ conversation about our city.
- Read Generous Justice “Introduction: Why Write this Book?”
- Underline every passage that gives you pause.
- Do you identify with one of the four groups Keller delineates?
- Respond to Keller’s question: “Why, I wondered, did the nonreligious believe so passionately in equal rights and justice, while the religious people I knew could not have cared less?” Have you ever wondered this?
- How do you define grace?
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UPCOMING CLASSES
- Sunday, February 5 • Class Debrief & Discussion
- Sunday, February 12 • Sunday Morning Mixer
- Sunday, February 19 • Louis & Marti Williams of Miss Marti’s House: Loving God and Others in Southern Barton Heights
- Sunday, February 26 • The Hispanic community in Richmond / Oscar Contreras, Program Director of Richmond’s only Christian Spanish language radio station: 1380 AM WBTK
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