Saturday, June 2, 2018

What’s Next? Chaos or Community?



What’s Next?  Chaos or Community?

Rev. Dr. C. Anthony Hunt, Ph.D.

I am a fifth generation Methodist.  I sense that one of the primary reasons that my family members before me remained in Methodist churches - worshipped and served faithfully, and steadfastly supported them - was because of hope.  They had hope that despite racism, gender bias and social stratification, the stated leaning toward inclusion that was a theological precept and practice of the Methodism's founder John Wesley lent itself to their Methodist churches being places where all people could someday find a spiritual home in Christ. 

In fact, John Wesley opposed and worked to eradicate the most egregious, dehumanizing social, spiritual American sin of his day – slavery, and its concomitant racism, notwithstanding the social teachings on race of the church of his ordination, the Anglican Church.  Wesley preached and practiced a form of social holiness that evidenced that the world (all people) was his parish. 

My family remained Methodists holding on to a hope that despite structural segregation and discrimination against Black, Brown and Native American people, women of all races, divorced persons, and others - the church would eventually live into a vision of real diversity and inclusion, and realize that what inclusivity really looks like is spaces where ‘all people’ really does mean ‘all people’.

Epworth Chapel's 12th Annual Community Health Fair


Click here to view a preview to Epworth Chapel's 12th Annual Community Health Fair at the Randallstown (MD) Community Center in partnership with the Memory and Aging Community Advisory Board (MACAB), Johns Hopking University and other partners  - https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/pcb.10215929086835818/10215929077395582/?type=3&theater