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Aug. 13, 2008
In the News: Community center receives an N.C. Defender of Justice award
by Nancy McLaughlin
A Greensboro nonprofit dedicated “to realizing the dignity and worth of all people” has been named a 2008 Defender of Justice, an award given annually by the nonprofit North Carolina Justice Center.
The Beloved Community Center was chosen as one of this year’s six recipients for the group’s “dedication” to making North Carolina a “fairer and more just state,” according to an announcement Tuesday from the organization, which highlights...
Apr. 22, 2008
A Call to Break the Silence, to Stand for Peace and to Work for Social and Economic Justice
by Rev. Nelson Johnson and the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro and Vicinity
INTRODUCTION:
We come both as religious leaders and citizens of this nation to express our opposition to the culture of war with all its implications, now pervasive in our nation. We are persuaded that violence and war are not the solution to our current differences with Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, other nations and/or peoples. In fact, war with its call to uncritical patriotism tends to prevent us from coming to terms with the true underlying causes of the...
Apr. 22, 2008
Framing the Beloved Community Context and Approach
by Rev. Nelson Johnson
What is the essential core, the non-reducible essence of BCC’s work? This is a most important question for all of us. Without a relatively grounded sense of our core work, all else that we do will be more flawed and deficient than it has to be. Is our work to increase the quality of education for our children? We must insure that our children are properly educated, and this is certainly included in our work. Is our essential work to win more labor campaigns and advance the rights...
Apr. 11, 2008
King Plus 40 Years: A Proposal for 12 months of Study on the Use of Power in Greensboro with a focus on the Progressive Mystique
by Rev. Nelson Johnson
King-Plus 40 years: a critique of the use of power (the progressive mystique) and the struggle for beloved community in Greensboro. I have come to the point of believing that the capacity to confuse people, promote conflict, and hide the real working of power in Greensboro is a most urgent question. Chafe hit the nail on the head when he identified a kind of deceptive “civilities” that promotes a “progressive mystique” which conceals a very reactionary use of...
Apr. 4, 2008
40 years later, we remember Dr. King
by the Beloved Community Center
Forty years ago, on April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee as he stood with sanitation workers fighting against dehumanizing and unjust conditions.
We join with brothers and sisters across the world who mourn the loss of this great leader and celebrate his life and dream. We particular remember his naming, on April 4, 1967, of the giant triplets of evil, "racism, extreme materialism, and militarism," and join with him in calling for...