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Jan. 21, 2009
King Day Pre-Obama Inauguration Speech
by Rev. Nelson Johnson
Click the link above to download the complete text of Rev. Nelson Johnson's King Day/Pre-Obama Inauguration Speech, delivered at the Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 19, 2009
Dec. 18, 2008
Sharing the Beloved Community Spirit: See What's Been Happening at the BCC in 2008!
by the Beloved Community Center
December 18, 2008
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Greetings! The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro (BCC) wishes for you, your family, and your friends a most joyful and productive holiday season. We know this letter is one of many worthy appeals you have received. We hope you will honor ours and as many as you can.
Oh what a year; what an extraordi-nary period in history! The election of the first African American...
Nov. 6, 2008
Post-Election Reflections
by the Beloved Community Center
On Wednesday, November 5, 2008 the Beloved Community Center hosted a post presidential election dialogue. The dialogue inspired conversation and reflection about the historical election and about president-elect Barack Obama's call to people to be agents of change within their various communities. Members of the beloved community have been challenged to think about the ways in which we can strategize around post-election momentum and work to...
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...