Through his own personal story, as well as through lessons, stories, and data from READI Chicago, Eddie Bocanegra explains the effectiveness of dealing with the trauma of gun violence through cognitive behavioral therapy and city, state, and national collaboration. Personal story I’m Eddie Bocanegra. I run READI Chicago, one of the largest violence prevention programs …
2020 Conference: The vision of deeper roots of Orthodoxy in America: On Bended Knee
By FSMB Board Member Hieromonk Alexii Altschul of Holy Archangel Michael Skete in Missouri. This talk is based on a key principle I learned when I was doing trauma therapy in the nineties and first decade of this century. Trauma unexamined tends to be trauma reenacted. Let us call to mind the Word of the …
2020 Conference: What color are your eyes?
By Fr. Turbo Qualls, FSMB Spiritual Formation Chair and priest at St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Kansas City, MO. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! My brothers and sisters, I greet you on this landmark day of our 27th Annual Conference… and although we are unfortunately not …
2020 Conference: Racism and Its Grounding in Shame and Disgust
By Fr. Stephen Freeman, pastor of St. Anne Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, TN. “For there is a shame that brings sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.” (Sirach 4:21) There is a popular definition of shame that describes it as “how we feel about who we are.” Along with this …
2020 Conference: The Impact of Education Innovation in Grades K-12 for Communities of Color
Presented by Gregory M. Weston, Trustee of Democracy Prep New York Schools The Challenge Communities of Color (COC) in the U.S. are challenged today as never before. The disparate impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on Communities of Color have laid bare the existing inequities in our healthcare system. Prior to the pandemic chronic health …
Letter from His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon to the attendees of the 2020 Annual Conference
October 9, 2020 Protocol 10/007 Fellowship of Saint Moses the Black 2020 Annual Conference To the Reverend Fathers and Esteemed Faithful present, Christ is in our midst! With this letter, I greet all of the attendees of the 2020 Conference of the Fellowship of Saint Moses the Black, I congratulate all of the conference organizers, …
Activism for the Orthodox Christian: Fr. Turbo Qualls & OCF
Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and CrossRoad Summer Institute hosted a discussion with Fr. Turbo Qualls about activism as an Orthodox Christian, as part of OCF’s Open Discussions on Race series.
Racial Reconciliation Panel Discussion
Mother Katherine, Fr. Paul Abernathy, Fr. Turbo Qualls, Dn. John Gresham, and Dn. Jonathan Reavis take your questions on the hard topics of racial reconciliation. The discussion was facilitated by Dn. Adam Roberts and the Antiochian Orthodox Department of Missions & Evangelism.
Racial reconciliation interview with Mother Katherine, Dn. John Gresham, & Dn. Jonathan Reavis (GOARCH)
Fr. John Chryssavgis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America speaks with Mother Katherine, Fr. Dn. John Gresham, & Fr. Dn. Jonathan Reavis about the Orthodox Church and racial reconciliation.
Racial reconciliation interview with Fr. Moses Berry and Fr. Turbo Qualls (GOARCH)
Fr. John Chryssavgis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America speaks with Fr. Moses Berry and Fr. Turbo Qualls about the Orthodox Church and racial reconciliation.
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