Prophets of Zoom

Historian Jemar Tisby was scheduled to speak at Ashland University in my class REL340 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement; that was until the Coronavirus cancelled all events and moved all classes online.

Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, kindly agreed to speak to the class on Zoom.

It went so well that it occured to me that there were other people I would love my students to meet and learn from.. I invited Rev. Michelle Higgins, the founder of Faith for Justice in St. Louis, and Rev Seth Wispelwey, one of the organizers of Congregate Charlottesville. Both kindly agreed to show up.

Recordings of the classes are available for anyone to watch -- click on the titles to go to the videos (I apologize for my rudimentary Zoom skills):

1. Reconsidering Racial Reconciliation - A Conversation with Jemar Tisby

2. Six Years Since Ferguson - A Conversation with Michelle Higgins

3.  . . . since Charlottesville - A Conversation with Seth Wispelwey