July 2022
A newsletter of Zion Hill Baptist Church
THE LIU (pronounced LEE-UU)
STILL LEARNING: “Faith and Social Justice: More Than Political Correctness” Reverend Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Presenter
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he Still Learning Adult Master Class series launched Wednesday, June 8 with a dynamic presentation by Dr. Theresa Fry Brown, Professor, Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Dr. Fry Brown addressed the topic of "Faith and Social Justice: More than Political Correctness." A servant in ministry for 40 years, Dr. Fry Brown engaged our hearts and minds in a scholarly presentation focused on Biblical and faith imperatives around justice. She noted the basis of any kind of justice is love for people because we want them to live regardless of a person's ethnicity, race,
or gender. Dr. Fry Brown began by showing a brief clip from the movie "Harriet," which for her revealed what is it like to do social justice. She explained that there are various aspects of justice we can work on explaining, "Each of us has to work on what we can work on. We each have a purpose." Dr. Fry Brown shared four Biblically-based dimensions of justice: attributive, distributive, retributive, and injustice. She said attributive justice occurs when each person is treated as an individual—justice is attributed to an individual, not a group of people. Dr. Fry Brown described
distributive justice as asking people what they need, not telling them what they need. She explained that retributive justice focuses on restoration by making right of wrong relationships. Finally, she clarified that injustice is an act of violence. Dr. Fry Brown expressed to attendees that when we understand attributive justice, distributive justice, retributive justice, and injustice then we can all be faithful and impactful workers of social justice. So how do we become those faithful workers of social justice that God desires (continued on page 3)