SURJ@SH is co-sponsoring an excellent speaker series on racial injustice - Community, Faith, and Racial Justice - offered to the community by Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

Here are the details for the first of several speakers in the series:

Please join us on March 6, 2024, for the first of several speakers in a series being offered to the community by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and co-sponsored by American Muslim Voice Foundation; Action Council Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto; First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC; Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice; Peninsula Solidarity Cohort; Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga; Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church, Cupertino; Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga; Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Mountain View; Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Sunnyvale; Showing Up for Racial Justice @Sacred Heart; Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose.

Dr. Lerone A. Martin,
Professor and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University

“Soul Force:  MLK, Jr., the Triple Evils, and American Democracy”

7 p.m.  ∙  St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto

No charge for admission – donations appreciated. 

Please register at:  tinyurl.com/march6speaker

The series explores the role of Christianity, including the white Christian Nationalist movement, in racial injustice and seeks to define a path toward racial justice, healing, and reconciliation.  Professor Martin’s recent book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover:  How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, will be available for purchase and signing.  For more information on the series, its co-sponsors, and future speakers, please visit:  tinyurl.com/stmarkseries.