Highlighting Leadership for Reconciliation Through the Lives of Faithful Witnesses & Communities featuring John Perkins and Charles Marsh

November 4 – 7, 2007

John Perkins

Mississippi Preacher-Activist John Perkins was born to a sharecropping family.  Perkins has pioneered church-based community development among the poor for over 40 years. He is author of Let Justice Roll Down and Beyond Charity, and chairs the Christian Community Development Association—7,000 people and 600 ministries and congregations across America dedicated to rebuilding broken communities. 

Charles Marsh

Theologian Charles Marsh is professor of religion at the University of Virginia, and author of The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today and God’s Long Summer.  Marsh is Director of the Project on Lived Theology. 

Public Invited to All Events

Sunday, November 4
An Evening with John Perkins & Charles Marsh

“Thy Kingdom Come, On Earth…”: A Story of Forgiveness, Justice, & Reconciliation for the Sake of the Gospel

6:00 – 8:00 pm, Blacknall Presbyterian Church, 1902 Perry Street, Durham (near 9th Street)
Co-sponsored by Blacknall Presbyterian Church and Duke Chapel

Monday, November 5
Intensive Workshop

Embodying the Beloved Community: How to Move From Rhetoric to Real Life

8:00 am – 1:00 pm, St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, 917 Onslow Street, Durham (near Duke’s East Campus). Featuring intensive teaching by Perkins and Marsh, a panel of Durham leaders, and discussion. The workshop costs $20 for students, $30 for others (includes breakfast and lunch).

Registration ends on October 26. To register, download and print a registration form or contact the Center for Reconciliation.

Monday, November 5
Duke Divinity School Presentation & Reception

America’s Unfinished Business: Justice, Reconciliation, the Church and Post-Civil Rights America Perkins/Marsh presentation & faculty panel discussion

Perkins and Marsh presentation & faculty panel discussion with Stanley Hauerwas, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and Rev. William C. Turner

2:30 - 4:00 pm, 0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School. Reception to follow.
Co-Sponsored by Divinity Black Seminarians’ Union and Duke Chapel

Wednesday, November 7
Duke Divinity School Chapel Service

John Perkins Preaching

10:00 – 11:00 am, Goodson Memorial Chapel, Duke Divinity School

Wednesday, November 7
Mount Level Missionary Baptist Church
Bible Study with John Perkins

**Time Changed**
6:30 pm, Mount Level Missionary Baptist Church, 316 Hebron Road, Durham

For more information about any of these events, contact Dayna Olson-Getty at 919-660-3578.