Denis and Margie Haack https://ransomfellowship.org/

Email us for a Zoom Invitation to this event at mail@hillhouseaustin.org

Friday Oct 9, 7-8:30 pm CDT

“No More of This”

On May 25 of this year, a 46-year old Black man, George Floyd was killed when a White police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds a mere 17 miles from my home. The rest, as they say, is history. Except that it’s not history, but ongoing, a reckoning of the sin of racism that has plagued America since before our nation’s founding. I have no expertise in this, am not a sociologist or historian, just a passionate desire shared with my wife to be faithful as a White Christian at this moment and in this place. So, I did what I know to do, tried to listen well and then wrote an essay, a personal reflection on race, justice and what we might do in our little corner of reality to witness to Christ as Lord. The Grooms have invited me to read my essay to you, and then host a conversation in the hope what I have written might encourage you to faithfulness as well. I look forward to listening to you and conversing, so that together we might explore what the Lord Christ might be asking of us in terms of our political stewardship as people of faith.