Healing the Land through Reparative Acts: Koinonia School 2021-22

Healing the Land through Reparative Acts: Koinonia School 2021-22

In Caste, Wilkerson contrasts the meaning attached to the Nazi memorials in Germany and confederate statues in America. Germans maintain a number of Holocaust monuments and concentration camp memorials, but their focus is on remembering and learning from the events. For 2021-2022, Koinonia will explore efforts in the U.S to suppress the truth of our nation’s…

RAPHA — A Course in Contemplative Healing Prayer

RAPHA — A Course in Contemplative Healing Prayer

Learn the rhythms of grace Rapha (the Hebrew word to heal) is a seven-month course in contemplative healing prayer. It consists of three retreats and four (4) six-week sessions. The course begins in September 2019 and concludes in April 2020. Participants are required to read selected books and articles, journal, write reflection papers, meet with…

The 2019 Amazing Praise was an Amazing Success

The Amazing Praise is a collaborative, online 48-hour giving celebration of God and the transforming work being done in Jesus’ name across Richmond.  It ran from noon on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 and concluded at noon on Thursday, September 26.  Here’s some of how we celebrated: While the official event has concluded, it is not…

Becoming Anti-Racist

Becoming Anti-Racist

by Sheryl Johnson I don’t know when I came to realize that I’m a racist.  Not the hood wearing, confederate flag waving kind, but the kind that doesn’t think twice about a photo voter ID law that just happens to disproportionately impact people of color, or the kind that looks a little more suspiciously at…