The Urban Oasis: February 2015

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

#G'LifeTEL: Teach Eat and Learn Symposium (Feb. 26th)

Join us on Thursday nights in the month of February as we celebrate Black History Month and boldly proclaim that Black Lives Matter!

Dinner starts at 5:30 pm. and events start at 6:30 pm.

*If you cannot join us in person, please follow us on Twitter and Facebook at #GlifeTEL

Free Admission!!

Thursday, February 26: Negro with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power. Group discussion to follow.

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

3381 RALEIGH MILLINGTON RD.

MEMPHIS, TN. 38128

(901) 236-7095

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Dr. Obery Hendricks to Speak at G'Life

In celebration of Black History Month, Dr. Obery Hendricks will serve as gust speaker at our 8:00am service Sunday February 22. Dr. Hendricks is in town for the Barbara A. Holmes Lectures in African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary. Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and politics in America. The scholar Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.” Social critic Michael Eric Dyson calls him “one of the greatest intellectuals and most exciting scholars in America today.”

A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks’ has appeared on C-SPAN, PBS, National Public Radio, BBC, al-Jazeera Television, NHK Japan Television, Air-America, Radio One, the Voice of America, Fox News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, the Discovery Channel, the Bloomberg Network, and numerous local television and radio programs. He has been a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, where he delivered the closing benediction of the 2008 Democratic Convention; served on the National Religious Leaders Advisory Committee of the 2008 Democratic Presidential campaign and currently serves on the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group at the U. S. Department of State. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Democracy at Work in New York City, an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress and serves on the board of the Public Religion Research Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Hendricks is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, an occasional contributor to Sojourners magazine and the award-winning Tikkun magazine, and a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation has called his work “the boldest post-colonial writing ever seen in Western biblical studies.”

“Essential reading for Americans,” is how the Washington Post described Hendricks’ bestselling book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday, 2006). Michael Dyson proclaimed it “an instant classic” that “immediately thrusts Hendricks into the front ranks of American religious thinkers.” The Politics of Jesus was the featured subject of the 90 minute C-SPAN special, “Class, Politics and Christianity.” His most recent book, The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic (Orbis, 2011), has been termed a “tour de force” by both scholars and politicians.

A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the United States, Dr. Hendricks is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. He holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.

For more information, call 901-236-7095

*Bio from HuffingtonPost

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

#GlifeTEL: TEACH EAT AND LEARN SYMPOSIUM (FEB. 19TH)

Join us on Thursday nights in the month of February as we celebrate Black History Month and boldly proclaim that Black Lives Matter!

Dinner starts at 5:30pm and events start at 6:30pm.

*If you cannot join us in person, please follow us on Twitter and Facebook at #GlifeTEL

Free Admission!!

Thursday February 19: Viewing: "The Night That Tulsa Burned: The Tulsa "Race" Riot of 1921." Group discussion to follow.

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

3381 RALEIGH MILLINGTON RD.

MEMPHIS, TN. 38128

(901) 236-7095

Saturday, February 7, 2015

#GlifeTEL: Film Viewing and Discussion: Slavery By Another Name

As part of the Teach Eat and Learn Symposium (#GlifeTEL), join Gifts of Life Ministries as they celebrate Black History Month and the #BlackLivesMatter campaign, by holding a viewing and discussion of "Slavery by Another Name" Wednesday Night, February 11 at 6:30pm. Lisa Jones Johnson, owner of 4 Peaceful Resolutions, will facilitate the discussion following the viewing of the film.

According to the production material, the "film challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.

Based on Douglas Blackmon’s research, Slavery by Another Name spans eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in both the South and the North that enabled this “neoslavery” to begin and persist. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells the forgotten stories of both victims and perpetrators of neoslavery and includes interviews with their descendants living today."

We serve dinner at 5:30pm and the event is free. For more information call the church at 901-236-7095.

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

3381 Raleigh-Millington Rd.

Memphis, TN. 38128

(901) 236-7095

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

#GlifeTEL: TEACH EAT LEARN SYMPOSIUM

Join us on Thursday nights in the month of February as we celebrate Black History Month and boldly proclaim that Black Lives Matter!

Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and events start at 6:30pm

February 5:

Panel Discussion: Theology and the Church After Ferguson. Moderated by Rev. Dr. Andre Johnson and students from Memphis Theological Seminary. #GlifeTEL

The TEL: TEACH EAT AND LEARN SYMPOSIUM PANELIST: