2018 Christian Leadership Forum Reflections

2018 Christian Leadership Forum

COURAGE TO BUILD BELOVED COMMUNITIES

Table of Contents 1 What is Beloved Community?

2 Insights from the 2018 Forum Bold Builders of Beloved Community

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by Stephen Lewis

5 Opening Doors of Inclusion

by Ophelia Hu Kinney

Building Solidarity for Beloved Community

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by Robert Chao Romero

Rec·i·proc·i·ty

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by Ashley Easter

Beyond Borders

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by Andrew Wilkes

The Radical Possibility of Belonging

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by Lily Luo

Protected Space to Share

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by Teresa P. Mateus

Coming Home

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by Denson Staples

Graphic Recordings

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Look Who’s Talking!

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What is Beloved Community?

EMPATHY

Explore words shared by participants during the Forum that reflect what Beloved Community means to them.

RADICAL BELONGING GRACE CREATIVITY INTENTIONAL

AUTHENTICITY

AFFIRMATION

LOVE

WITNESS

FAITH

HOME

FAMILY

IMPERFECT POSSIBLE

HEALING

CONSCIOUSNESS

WORK INCARNATION

LIBERATION

TRANSFORMATIVE

COURAGE VILLAGE

SISTERHOOD

CONNECTIVITY

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Insights from the 2018 Forum

Be inspired by insights that contributors gained during this year’s FTE Christian Leadership Forum.

God continuously calls us to co-create Beloved Communities.

Building Beloved Community can be dangerous.

Though interdependence is countercultural, it is the Christian way.

When a person or ministry is a “breath of fresh air” it means the Holy Spirit (“Breath of Life”) is moving.

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If we can build Beloved Community in a few pockets of the world, we can expand it wider with each step we take.

We cannot adequately do the work of seeking justice unless we adequately do the work of seeking God.

Where we go, what we invest in, and who invests in us impacts who we become.

Beloved Community is not realized until all people are seen, valued, and included.

Our stories matter.

Sharing them is empowering.

Building Beloved Community requires us to be our neighbors’ keeper.

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Everyone must be welcome at the table of Beloved Community, especially those who are different from us.

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Finding Beloved Community is coming home to who you are in Christ.

We are shaped by who we walk with through the journey of our lives.

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Reciprocity and collaboration are catalysts of Beloved Community.

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We must travel to the past to recall kin-dom builders. We must also travel to the future to envision the kin-dom yet to come.

Hearing someone else’s story can bring our exhausted hearts back to life.

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Beloved Communities are created by design, not chance.

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Expand your ecclesial imagination and you will expand prospects for creating Beloved Community.

Building Beloved Community takes work and intentionality. But it is not impossible.

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To build Beloved Community, we must build solidarity among faith leaders.

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Our bodies’ DNA carries the pain and joys of our ancestors. Understanding our history opens understanding of our personal pain and joyful callings.

Choosing Beloved Community over racial capitalism demands that we design a different system for living.

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God loves and challenges us through other people. Sacred friendships transform us.

The smartest one in the room is not one individual; it is the room as a whole.

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Bold Builders of Beloved Community

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e are commanded by Jesus to build

concept. If we seek to follow the Way of Jesus,

Beloved Communities.

we will take this “new commandment” seriously.

It is the roadmap for changing the world.

The first disciples heard Jesus say, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.

I met some courageous Christian leaders at the

Just as I have loved you, you also should love one

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another.”

More than 190 leaders from 100 different cities,

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92 faith communities, and 40 denominations Do we hear and heed this commandment as

traveled 137,000 miles to explore the “Courage to

disciples today? Do we follow it, not just person-

Build Beloved Communities.” Participants were

ally, but collectively and systemically—in every

invited to imagine alternative ways to create

human circle we inhabit as community?

Beloved Communities—locally and globally.

I hope we can agree that Jesus’ commandment

Together, we acknowledged that it is a risky busi-

isn’t intended to be optional, or just a nice, vague

ness. Proclaiming a vision of Beloved Community

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John 13:34

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We also must become conscious of the systems and powers that negatively shape or plunder our communities. When we do, we encounter the

The communities in which we participate are created by design, not by chance.

insidious evils that Dr. King identified.

These evils must be protested, mitigated, resisted, and renounced. They block and obstruct the social, cultural, environmental, and economic expressions of Beloved Community that can transform our world.

Future generations and the communities they inherit depend on what we do today.

cost Jesus his life. It cost the disciples their lives.

And 50 years ago, it cost America’s prophet, the

So how will you design Beloved Communities

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his life, too.

right where you are? What alternatives can you create to the worldly status quo?

Dr. King and his courageous contemporaries pursued a vision of Beloved Community that

Can you find your courage alongside other bold

took Jesus’ new commandment seriously: an

dreamers, doers, and designers?

alternative community that would reject racism, militarism, exclusion, and economic exploitation.

Let’s summon our courage together. Let’s get

An alternative community rooted in the biblical

to work. Connect with the network of disciples

imperative of love and living in just relationships

following the Way of Jesus who work to build

with one another.

communities where everyone—including “the least” among us—are called and cared for as

In the alternative community proclaimed by

God’s beloved people!

Jesus and Dr. King, everyone has the opportunity as a beloved child of God to participate and thrive in communities of well-being.

And the communities in which we participate are created by design, not by chance.

Stephen Lewis President, Forum for Theological Exploration

Only when we become conscious of our values, assumptions, and life choices can we design better communities motivated by love and the desire for everyone to thrive.

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Opening Doors of Inclusion that of welcoming LGBTQ Christians in church

BY OP H EL I A HU K I N N E Y | YO UN G A D ULT CO H O RT

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spaces and in the larger world. While we held our ive minutes into the stillness, I regretted

pose, other forum attendees looked on, taking in

the position I’d chosen to hold.

the message of inclusion.

Bent into a gesture of welcome, my arm shook.

As I held my pose, I thought of the intention,

Still, I held out my hand and I smiled up at my

strength, and courage needed to build and

new friend. She held up her hands in mimed

sustain Beloved Community. I was overwhelmed

surprise at the chair we had pulled out before her,

with the sorrow and the joy of longing, and in

as those of us seated at the table attempted to

that moment, I turned to prayer.

say with our bodies, “You are welcome here.”

As the Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon noted on our In that moment at the FTE Christian Leadership

first evening at the Forum, we cannot sustain

Forum, we worked in a group of nine to demon-

our work in the streets without spending time in

strate through a human statue a symbol of what

the prayer closet. And as the Spirit continually

it is to be Beloved Community. Our context was

said to me throughout my time at the gathering,

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authentic creation of the Beloved Community has to stem from a deep and Christ-like love greater than what we can accomplish alone.

Authentic creation of the Beloved Community has to stem from a deep and Christ-like love greater than what we can accomplish alone.

How I long for a “welcome and welcoming” vision of the future! It is not yet, but yes, it will come one day. It will come as a result of our partnership with the Holy Spirit, should we choose such an adventure. This vision also calls to me as a queer woman working to open the doors of Christian spaces to other queer Christians.

FTE’s Christian Leadership Forum gave young adults the tools and the family to embark on that adventure with the Holy Spirit. It engaged us in radical practices of interdependence. This is innate in the Gospel, but is countercultural in a national arena that prioritizes independence and shames dependence.

in ministry, and a universal call to build Beloved Community wherever I go.

The Forum offered us the gifts of discomfort and of healing, of setting right the bones in the body

Ophelia Hu Kinney serves as

of Christ.

grants manager for the United Way of Greater Portland in

I came to the Forum hungry for direction,

Portland, ME. She is an activist

discernment, and the wisdom of my elders. I left

and writer who is committed to

transformed by sacred friendships and transfixed

advancing equity, justice, and

by two calls: a personal call to near-term clarity

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Building Solidarity for Beloved Community

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on my current book project, The Brown Church:

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Towards a Latina/o Christian History and Social

he FTE Christian Leadership Forum

Identity. As another fortuitous connection, I met

expanded my ecclesial imagination of

Dr. Fernando Cascante of the Association for

Beloved Community beyond my Southern

Hispanic Theological Education (AETH).

California Chicano roots.

The Forum gave me and a cadre of more than a While much of my ministry in California activates

dozen emerging Latina/o leaders the opportunity

Mexican and Central American communities of

to network and host an informal gathering of the

faith, the Forum allowed me to learn from—and

Brown Ecclesial Network (BEN).

build solidarity with—my Puerto Rican and Cuban sisters and brothers from the East Coast who

The importance of these opportunities in Atlanta

engage in similar work.

to forge solidarity with new networks amplified my recent experience in California with Pastor Noe Carias.

One highlight was meeting Dr. Ray Rivera, an icon in Latina/o urban ministry, who offered feedback

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prayed and fasted, and held a prayer vigil in front of ICE headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

We sent messages on Scripture and Roman

I now see more clearly what is possible when we act in solidarity as faith leaders.

Catholic social teachings to the director of ICE, held press conferences, and advocated with the mayor, U.S. Senators, and other elected officials.

Two months later, after all hope was seemingly lost, a miracle happened—Pastor Noe was released!

I now see more clearly what is possible when we act in solidarity as faith leaders. My next most

Fleeing the violence of civil war and captivity as

faithful step toward making an impact in my

a child soldier, Pastor Noe came to the United

community is to help foster healing interaction

States originally as a refugee from Central

between emerging and senior Latina/o ministry

America. He became a pastor in the Assemblies

leaders. Unfortunately, intergenerational pain

of God denomination, as well as the husband of a

and distrust currently divides many Latina/o

U.S. citizen wife and the father of two U.S. citizen

millennials and elder religious leaders. Drawing

children.

energy from Pastor Noe’s moving story, the FTE Forum, and the urgency of our current national

In 2017, Pastor Noe was unjustly detained by U.S.

moment, I will seek to bring leaders together

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and

through my connections with BEN, AETH, the

scheduled for deportation. A diverse network of

National Latino Evangelical Coalition, and the

Christians nationwide arose to support him.

Latino Pastoral Action Center.

This included an unusual alliance of Latino Pente-

Robert Chao Romero is associate

costal churches, conservative evangelical mega

professor of Chicana/o Studies

churches, seminaries, Christian colleges, Roman

and Asian American Studies at

Catholic leaders, and mainline denominations.

the University of California

We employed the strategy of radical love and

(UCLA) Latin American Institute.

nonviolence as taught by Jesus and embodied by

He is a pastor, author, and

Dolores Huerta, César Chávez, and Martin Luther

attorney with a focus on immigration law.

King Jr. In good Latino Pentecostal fashion, we

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Rec·i·proc·i·ty conversations, and contributions were sought

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out. Attendee contributions were included and called for in every session. At this event, I heard

have attended many conference-style events.

over and over that the smartest one in the room is not one individual but the room as a whole.

Most draw a distinct divide between speakers

This was both refreshing and enlightening.

or facilitators and those who are attending the event. The first group is deemed as “celebrity experts.” The attendees are often viewed as

I saw this approach play out as seasoned activ-

passive listeners with nothing of great worth to

ists and ministers were asked to share from their

add to the conversation.

experience. Attendees were encouraged to come to the front of the room, not only to ask questions, but to sit down with the speakers and

The FTE Christian Leadership Forum is different.

openly engage with them.

Not only was I brought into a welcoming space

During worship, professional musicians

to learn and connect with seasoned activ-

performed alongside conference attendees who

ists and ministry leaders—but my own voice,

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Lab I participated in was almost entirely filled with attendees sharing their personal stories and learning from each other’s life experiences. The

It was a beautiful picture of individual members of the Body of Christ working together for the good of the Beloved Community.

Peer Group model was also extremely communal, as each person was given equal time to share their insights from the day.

Perhaps the most obvious showing of this mutual collaboration was through the Reciprocity Board.

Each attendee was asked to write down a need they had for themselves or their ministries. We were then asked to place this request on a piece of paper and put it on a literal Reciprocity Board.

Next, a facilitator spoke to the group about our unique gifts and asked us to choose one or more needs on the board that we each felt competent and called to fill. It was a beautiful picture of individual members of the Body of Christ working

This reciprocity and collaborative model will

together for the good of the Beloved Community.

change the way I engage in ministry moving forward. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity

Reciprocity is “the practice of exchanging things

to learn from and to experience a healthier way

with others for mutual benefit.” FTE sees the

of ministry engagement.

distinct value in investing in young people in a way that does not condescend, but cultivates the

Ashley Easter is a Christian

opportunity for mutual benefit.

feminist, writer, speaker, and abuse-victim advocate. She is

As a young woman in ministry who has been

also the founder of The Courage

overlooked and devalued in the past, I was taken

Conference, a place to gather for survivors of abuse and those who

aback by FTE’s willingness to invest in me and love them.

even to learn from me. I have honestly never experienced anything like it.

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Beyond Borders now is the hour to labor in love—for justice—

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with audacity, strategy, and the Forum’s core virtue—courage.

uilding Beloved Community means that we can create a world beyond the

Beloved Community is a powerful and dangerous

borders of racial capitalism and its disin-

ideal. At the Forum, peer groups and large

carnate impact on God’s creation.

groups—in differing ways—noted the everLove in a robust, social sense is not widely expe-

present peril of Beloved Community when it

rienced in our world. But it might be. And the

reverts to a mere aggregation of individuals.

possibility alone is worth generations of struggle, In this context, I am reminded of Dr. Martin

enflamed in a spirit of prayer.

Luther King Jr.’s insistent refrain: focusing on love In view of a God who so loves the world—and

without also exercising responsible power and

inspired by the imperatives of neighbor love and

holistically insisting on justice is a betrayal of love,

self-love—I walked away from the FTE Christian

and is therefore antithetical to God.

Leadership Forum with a renewed conviction:

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What is our way forward? Beloved Community?

Or racial capitalism?

Now is the hour to labor in love—for justice—with audacity, strategy, and the Forum’s core virtue— courage.

We must choose—as individuals, as congregations, as a society.

The world-altering risk of making the wrong choice is the most urgent theological threat facing the church.

Upon this choice turns the identity and mission of the Jesus movement.

Yes, other ways of naming our collective priorities are possible, congruent, and important.

But nothing is more important than our chosen

Instead of these possible distortions of Beloved

direction.

Community, what we experienced at our gathering in Atlanta was the collective power of

God grant us courage to design and demand a

an association anointed by Spirit to name evil

different system. Holy Spirit, lead us to a world

directly and articulate a life together.

beyond the borders.

Together, we identified organizational strategies

Andrew Wilkes is an ordained

and congregational polities beyond the pollutant

minister, organizer, and writer

influences of excessive reliance on cost-benefit

with a dual commitment to

reasoning and return-on-investment thinking.

community development and economic justice. He is a grad-

For three days, a glorious solidarity inspired our

uate teaching fellow at the City

songs, animated small group discussions, under-

University of New York in New York City.

girded dinner table conversations, and initiated a beautiful visualization of Beloved Community through art.

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The Radical Possibility of Belonging Ferguson, her respect for the grassroots orga-

BY L I LY LU O | YO UN G A D ULT CO H O RT

nizers on the streets, and the fact that though the arrived in Atlanta just after returning to the

young people of Ferguson were not in her pews,

United States from China.

it wasn’t because they didn’t know God. It was because they had no connection to the institutions that had claimed God.

Jetlagged and culture-shocked, I wasn’t sure if I had enough energy for a space made for networking, Beloved Community-building, and

It warmed my heart to hear Rev. Blackmon

intense faithful discernment.

describe how affirmed and supported she was by her mother, grandmother, and neighborhood while growing up. But I could not relate to that experi-

But there I was at the FTE Christian Leadership

ence of affirmation. The story of my own family

Forum, holding my tender and tired heart, trying

relied on a model minority narrative of rapid social

to muster up my signature enthusiasm.

ascension and the denial of a painful past.

I listened to the amazing Reverend Traci

I wondered if anyone else in the room felt like I did.

Blackmon, who spoke about her experience in

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That night at dinner, I met Irene who shared how she, too, had felt sadness while hearing Rev. Blackmon’s story. We talked about how often we

We created a circle with our hearts and our chairs, and the Spirit was with us.

feel lost as progressive Asian-American Christians, how much we want foremothers to look up to, and how glad we were to meet.

The next morning, I saw a row of icons set in the middle of our gathering space, and I recognized a familiar face. It was an image of social activist Grace Lee Boggs, who urged us all to grow our souls.

Seeing her face reminded me that a lineage of

Boggs and in queer group dates over Korean

progressive Asian-American Christians did exist.

Chinese food. God took my lonely soul and showed me the radical possibility of belonging in her body.

Later, I met another Asian American who not only knew Grace Lee Boggs, but offered to help me gain access to her archives for my disserta-

Someone had said during the Forum weekend

tion work.

that God loves us through other people, and my time there showed me just how true that is.

That night, I joined an open-space conversation about Asian Americans seeking justice. I saw my

Lily Luo is a grassroots organizer,

weariness mirrored around that circle, but I also

worship leader, and a member of

saw love, courage, and support. I realized that,

Life Together in Brookline, MA, a

no matter how I may feel at times, straddling

fellowship and community for

cultures and worlds, I was not alone. We created

those who are called to a deeper exploration of the Jesus Way.

a circle with our hearts and our chairs, and the

Currently she is working at Episcopal City Mission

Spirit was with us.

as their lead trainer and applying for PhD I didn’t expect to find a sense of belonging in

programs in Political Science and American

Atlanta, but somehow, “belovedness” found me.

Studies.

The Spirit came to me in the icon of Grace Lee

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Protected Space to Share As leaders from around the country went around

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the room, introducing themselves and their

amily comes in all forms. Spiritual compan-

reasons for being there, I learned about a unique

ionship comes in all forms. Beloved

familial and historical quality of the FTE organiza-

Community comes in all forms.

tion and its community.

I realized that quickly in my inaugural experi-

Each leader, with the exception of only a few of

ence of the FTE Christian Leadership Forum as

us, was in that room because their life, their work,

I joined the pre-forum leadership team meeting

and their own calling had been deeply formed

alongside a collective of workshop facilitators,

and informed by the learnings and friendships

small group leaders, and staff from the Forum for

found in FTE program’s past. It was powerful

Theological Exploration (FTE).

and prophetic testimony to genuine community building and to formation processes that shape leaders and build hope—from one generation to

As an FTE neophyte, I had no idea what to

the next.

expect, but I quickly realized something unique about this space.

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I believe our stories matter. I also believe there are special spaces in the world which create the protection for people to share fully with one

There are special spaces in the world which create the protection for people to share fully with one another.

another.

From seeing the FTE community “do life together” over a few short days, I realized that what was possible in the space of my Idea Lab was only fully embodied because of the space FTE creates for its community.

I am grateful to have shared a few short days inside of that space of authenticity, truth-telling, vision-casting, and hope-building. We need more space like this in the world — for now I am grateful for those pockets like the FTE Forum where that space is generously and gently

Throughout my time with the FTE family I

crafted for leaders and learners who are enacting

learned that it is a place where possibility can

potent change in the world.

be birthed and nurtured — where students and learners of all stages of life can envision some-

Teresa P. Mateus is an assistant

thing beyond what is seen every day.

professor of social work at St. Augustine College in Chicago and

In my own Idea Lab I saw a room of mostly

executive director of The Mystic

young learners joined by a handful of elder

Soul Project. She is an author,

leaders sit in a circle of authentic sharing. One-

trauma specialist, and contempla-

by-one, they offered up their truths, their stories,

tive practice teacher.

their histories, and their possibilities.

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Coming Home “Let us pray for the drug dealers, rapists, and

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homosexuals.” It wasn’t uncommon for a church

oung people hadn’t been in the church,

leader to say this very line from the pulpit. It was

and the worst part was that we hadn’t

a chilling incantation for me, a high schooler

missed them.” So proclaimed the

just coming to terms with a form of desire and

Reverend Traci Blackmon at the FTE Christian

sexuality that would place me in the last class of

Leadership Forum in Atlanta.

that triumvirate of ills. I would become petrified— utterly unmoving—until the spell’s effect had

Her words resonated deeply with me.

passed. Until I felt safe to breathe again.

Ten years ago, I fled the church. After years of

Exhausted from the demonization of myself and others, I moved across states and time zones

exposure to toxic theologies that vilified many

to escape a community that would not love me

groups, I fled as far from my church home as a

and could not fathom how to include all of me in

college scholarship could carry me. Few were

God’s embrace. I was not only fleeing “Christian”

safe—outside or inside my church—when voices

community; I was trying to escape from God, too.

clamored to pass judgment. These voices said,

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I was a decade away from arriving at the Forum and its focus on building Beloved Communities.

I fled as far from my

My recent life experience has been a homecoming of sorts. As a Master of Divinity student,

church home as a

I found myself not only in church again, but leading worship, expected to facilitate fellowship with God and others. Every Sunday during

college scholarship

my first year back attending a church, I regularly heard new words: “Wherever you are on the

could carry me.

journey of life or faith, you are welcome here.”

These words are further extended to offer an unqualified, unconditional welcome at the second church I attend. Every Sunday, worship leaders

Her words also provoke new questions:

declare, “Welcome! Whether you are queer or

Who longs to be here, yet is absent

straight, or a little bit of each. Whether you are

from our community now?

young or old, or a little bit of each. Whether you

What have we done, and left undone,

are here for the first time or have been for a

to produce such absence?

long time, or a little bit of each. Because you are

Who do we, or should we, miss?

here, the body of Christ is present and ready for

Whose presence do we long for?

worship.”

Denson Staples is a recent

It feels good to be “home.” Reverend Blackmon’s

Master of Divinity graduate from

words revealed to me that coming home is not

Harvard Divinity School, was a

always a return to our origins. Rather, it is finding

ministerial intern at First Church

and being found by those who have longed for

in Cambridge, MA and Cathedral

and eagerly awaited your arrival. It is finding your

of Hope in Dallas, TX, and is now

Beloved Community.

pursuing ordination in the United Church of Christ.

He is a resident tutor in Cabot House offering guidance on physical, spiritual, and communal wellness.

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uring the 2018 Christian Leadership Forum a graphic recorder captured big ideas and community conversations through a live drawing of images and words. Attendees also contributed to this “curation wall� with notes that shared insights, feelings, visions and dreams. The images below reflect what emerged throughout the gathering among participants inspired to build beloved communities.

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Looks who’s talking!

Top Tweets for #FTEforum18

neichelle guidry, phd @neichelleg “Beloved Community is dismantling and disempowering violence of all forms against people, just for being who they are, and offering a glimpse of something better.” – @pastortraci #FTEforum18 One V.O.I.C.E. @be1voice “There is something about Beloved Community that makes it possible for us to be where we are to one day, if not now, teach each other.”— Cláudio Carvalhaes #FTEforum18 Dori Baker @bakerdori “We have to have the courage to call toxicity out wherever it is — in the church, in the streets, wherever. We cannot allow toxicity to go unnamed.” – Rev Traci Blackmon #FTEforum18

Michael Rudisill @Michael_Rudi4 As people of faith do we believe the institution is the only representation of the movement of God? #BelovedCommunity is beyond institution #FTEforum18 Minister Sonya Vann @VannSonya “Beloved Community is not the answer to oppression, but the result of fighting against oppression.” – @pastortraci #FTEforum18 Callid Keefe-Perry @CallidKP Dismantling unjust systems is not extra credit Christianity. It is central. #FTEforum18 JAC @thefifthjc “Moments call for tactics, but communities call for OFFERINGS.” – @neichelleg #FTEforum18

Nurya Love Parish @nurya Passion for solving a real problem connected to a real community of people is what will see you through to the long run. @S1ewis #FTEforum18

D.L. Jaggers @dljaggers To experience Beloved Community we must be willing to move past ourselves, consistently. #FTEforum18

Reverend Jen Bailey @revjenbailey Building Beloved Community will require: 1) Reckoning with evil, 2) Repairing of the breech 3) Revolution. It will require a shift in consciousness. #FTEforum18

Chesla @CheslaNickelson We will not do Beloved Community perfectly but that does not get us off the hook for pursuing it faithfully. #FTEforum18

David Telfort @DavidFTelfort The theological principle of sufficiency isn’t rooted in American individualism. It is rooted in Beloved Community and the conviction that we already have all we need. @mww22 #FTEforum18

Kelsey FittingSnyder @Kelseyfitting Reflecting on Rev. Dr. Ray Rivera’s story, I am reminded again and again “you can’t be what you can’t see,” we must continue to lift up leaders of all places and races. #FTEforum18

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2018 CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP FORUM

Forum for Theological Exploration 160 Clairemont Avenue, Suite 300 Decatur, Georgia 30030 678.369.6755

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