Reconciliation: Memory, Justice, and Forgiveness

Tuesday, April 15. 5:00pm - 6:30pm. Seattle Center Pavilion Room B.

Description

This workshop will explore the theme of reconciliation and a spirituality of forgiveness from the perspective of the development of compassion in a child, Ruby Bridges, who desegregated the Louisiana public school system in 1960 when she was six years old. It will illustrate how Ruby's fundamentally compassionate outlook on herself, God, and others emerged from her cultural and spiritual identity as an African-American. This identity not only helped little Ruby to survive perpetual hatred and physical danger, but it also taught her the power of forgiveness.

Presenter Bio

Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges

Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges is a systematic theologian and ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. with privilege of call in the United Church of Christ. She joined the faculty of STM as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology in 2002 and became an associate professor in 2006.