This Sunday at 9:15 am, Dr. Marc Mullinax will be speaking to us. Marc works at Mars Hill College, where he is a professor of Religion (since 2001). He is also the faculty sponsor for a student spirituality group called Ethos, the only one of its kind at the college that does not do worship, or mention Jesus on a regular basis. Instead, students gather over dinner to discuss in confidence matters and issues relating to spirituality, and never leave without connecting their conversations to social justice.
His forum is entitled A White Person Looks at White Privilege. Using the story of Jacob and Esau as a launch, Marc will probe whiteness, racism, and other color codes in American society. For example, when did it become necessary for a group of people to identify themselves as “white”? Against whom did they wish to demarcate themselves? In the talk, there will be first hand testimonies to the quiet powers that race, orientations, education, and other life-conditions actually do play in the USA. He will invite those gathered to dive deep and surface with their own understandings of how they play (or benefit from others’ playing) the cards of race or power or status. Are our privileges and gifts so many entitlements that blind us to, or are they lenses by which we may actually see more clearly, the inbreaking of God’s Realm on earth as it is in heaven?
Please plan to join us for this thought-provoking session. Everyone is welcome.
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