“Best-selling author Brian McLaren grew up as a Christian fundamentalist where rock and roll was the devil. His religious journey led him to confront issues of social and racial justice. Brian talks about the corrupting force of racism in evangelical orthodoxy and how white privilege has led to a theology that focuses on personal sin rather than racial inequality.” – PBS
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The Limits of Religious Tolerance: Scott Appleby
“University of Notre Dame history professor Scott Appleby assesses the present moment and analyzes the anxiety, fear, and conflict currently in evidence on the American religious scene.” – PBS
The Black Church & Black Struggle: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Legacy Video
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“SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Volume 23 – The Black Church and Black Struggle FEATURED SPEAKERS Rev. Bernard Lafayette (SNCC Field Secretary) Rev. Nelson Johnson (Student Organization for Black Unity) Rev. David Forbes (Raleigh Student Movement) The Black church was born in struggle in the midst of slavery, and despite laws and vigilante actions targeting it for destruction the church has not only survived, but has played a sustained and central role over more than 300 years of Black struggle in America. This panel of Black churchmen, with very active audience participation, reflects and examines the historical role of the church, its specific role in the Movement of the 1960s, and the lessons of that struggle for today.” – Alexander Street, A ProQuest Company
Letting Go of God: Julia Sweeney
“When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs, in this excerpt from Sweeney’s solo show “Letting Go of God.”” – TED 2006
World Religions: The Rise of Religious Intolerance
“Eugene McCarraher, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Humanities will be leading a lecture, titled “The Rise of Religious Intolerance.” – Villanova University
Let’s Teach Religion – All Religion – In Schools: Dan Dennett
“Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion – all religion – to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution. ” – TED 2006
David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick
“Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system – and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.” – TEDMED 2016
Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine
“Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine — and invites us to be a part of ending it. ‘It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy,’ she says, ‘and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us.’” – TEDMED 2015
Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college – and others for prison
In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?” – TED2015
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality
“Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.” – TEDWomen 2016
