Letter from Birmingham Jail

I’ll be one of the panel presenters for this Forum on the Letter from Birmingham Jail on Wednesday, 10/7 at Loyola University of Maryland

Eight Practical Tips for Voting

Eight Practical Tips for Voting
By C. Anthony Hunt, Ph.D.


1. Plan to arrive at the designated polling place at least an hour before voting, and at least an hour before polls close.

2. Go to the polls in groups. If at all possible, avoid going alone.

3. Expect to wait in line. Wait patiently, and don’t leave until voting.   Wear comfortable shoes, and carry a disposable bottle of water.

4. Know the exact name, address and date of birth on your voter registration. If possible have your voter registration card with you.

5. Take at least one form of up-to-date photo ID, and if at all possible carry a valid government ID. It might not be needed, but have it just in case.

6. In the event of questions or confrontation, calmly ask for and wrote down the name of the election official in charge of the voting place.

7. If required to complete a provisional ballot, complete the provisional ballot. Take the time that’s needed to completely and as accurately as possible provide the required personal information. Remember, all U.S. citizens have a right to cast a ballot or provisional ballot.

8. Remember, it is ultimately the role of state elections boards, not polling places, to verify the eligibility of those who have registered to vote, based on information provided by the registrant.

Reflections on the Importance of Voting

Click here for reflections on the importance of voting -
https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/vb.1106286174/10217088212693240/?type=3

Reflections on Being a Peacemaker

Click here for reflections on being Peacemakers -

https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/vb.1106286174/10217110092000209/?type=3

Reflections in the Aftermath of the Shootings at Tree of Life Synagogue

He was from suburban Bergen County, New Jersey and I had been reared in Washington, DC, although my family moved to the Maryland suburbs when I was a sophomore in high school. We met on the first day of college, and realized as we got off the elevator together on the seventh floor of Easton Hall, and made our way down the hall, that we would be dorm roommates at the University of Maryland - not by choice, but by assignment. How were we supposed to make this roommate thing work, I wondered? On the surface, Jerry and I were as different as two eighteen year olds could be. He was Caucasian and Jewish, and I was African American and Christian. He was bold enough to ask me what it was that I was putting in the closet, and I told him, it was an ironing board. We both chuckled. He’d never ironed his own clothes, so I told him I’d show him how. Over the more than two years that we lived as roommates, I learned as much from Jerry as I did from my college professors. I leaned that we had more in common than we had differences. We both loved sports, almost all kinds of music, and pizza (lots of Dominoes pizza). We both loved to laugh. We grew to become like brothers. We learned about the differences and similarities of our faith experiences as Jewish and Christian. I’ve learned to appreciate, through my experiences with Jerry, and other Jewish and Muslim persons with whom I have engaged over the years, that the thing that we all fundamentally share is our humanity, as creations of the same God. We share stories - similar and different though they may be - of exile and exodus, suffering and hope. Tonight, I remember and give thanks for Jerry and his family, and I pray for my Jewish and Muslim sisters and brothers, here and abroad. I pray for all who are in some ways strangers in a strange land. And I pray that we will find it within ourselves to come to the place where we see the full humanity in each of us whom God has fearfully and wonderfully created.

Reflections of the Role of the Church and Religious Leaders in the Public Square

Click here for some of my thoughts on the role of the church and religious leaders in the public square.
https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216994756476893/?t=1

Faith Makes a Difference

Click here to view my revival sermon at Queens Chapel United Methodist Church on 10/17/18 - "Faith Makes a Difference" (Mark 2:1-5) - https://www.facebook.com/QueensChapelUMC/videos/292736308003183/?t=2

Reflections from the Renew the City Conference, Chattanooge, TN

Click here for my brief reflections from the Renew the City Conference, Chattanooga, TN, 9/21-23, 2018 -
https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216850096940495/?t=0

RETRACING THE STEPS OF FREEDOM 2019

I'll be providing leadership for "Retracing the Steps of Freedom" in Alabama in  April 2019.  To register, go to http://www.bwcumc.org/event/1220275-2019-04-06-retracing-the-steps-of-freedom/

ABS at Welsey - "Faith Makes a Difference" -

Check out my sermon "Faith Makes a Difference" (Mark 2:1-5)

ABS-Wesley Seminary - "Faith Makes a Difference"

Thoughts on Theology in the Public Square

Click here on some of my thoughts of theology in the public square - 9/11/18
https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216758554852000/?t=0

It's a Family Affair

Click here for an excerpt from my proclamation "It's a Family Affair" preached on 9/9/18 -
https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216747682380195/?t=0

Renew the City-2018

I'll be leading the Renew the City Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee the weekend of September 21-23.

Reflections from Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, 8/5-10/18-

Click here for my reflections from Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, 8/5-10/18 -

https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216474684675423/?t=1

From the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, 8/9/18

Click here for my reflections from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama, 8/9/18 -

https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216483679060277/?t=2

Men's Conferecne at Westphalia Unided Methodist Church, 6/24-25/2018

Click on the links below to view some potions of my presentations at the Wesphalia United Methodist Church Men's Conference June 24-25, 2018 -

Part 1, Lecture
https://www.facebook.com/westphaliaum/videos/1161199484022630/?t=0

Part 2, Lecture
https://www.facebook.com/westphaliaum/videos/1161228717353040/?t=0

Part 3,  Panel Discussion with Rev. Dr. B. Kevin Smalls
https://www.facebook.com/westphaliaum/videos/1161280434014535/?t=1

Part 4, Worship Celebration and Proclamation "Positioned for Promotion" (Deuteronomy 2)
https://www.facebook.com/westphaliaum/videos/1162159623926616/?t=3559

COME GO WITH ME: HOWARD THURMAN AND A GOSPEL OF RADICAL INCLUSIVITY

COMING THIS DECEMBER

STONES OF HOPE: ESSAYS. SERMONS AND PRAYERS ON RELIGION AND RACE

SCENES FROM THE BOOK SIGNING

Ecclesial Justice: The Problem of Sunday Morning and the Movement towards Beloved Community

Ecclesial Justice: The Problem of Sunday Morning and the Movement towards Beloved Community

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

United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio

August 23, 2018

The world today is wrought with social, economic, political and religious upheaval.  Over the past several years, in the United States and across the globe, we have become more divided along various lines.  In the U.S., the social and political division that we now experience is not really new, but it challenges our sense of normalcy in ways that perhaps we have not been challenged in the past. 

About seven years ago, I was asked, in another academic setting, to address the matter of “Sunday Morning”, and answer the question, “Is it the Most Segregated the Hour of the Week?  This is the “Problem of Sunday Morning”.  I believe that this is a matter that continues to weigh on the churches in many respects today.  And so the questions today are, (1) what does ecclesial justice look like in the 21^st century, (2) how might we go about addressing “the problem of Sunday Morning”, and (3) what would it look like for the churches, as the Body of Christ (he embodiment of Christ), to move towards becoming Beloved Community?

I propose that a great deal of the problem of Sunday Morning, and division in and among churches today, is rooted in the persistent problem of race and racism in America.  It is thus, important that division in the churches, and particularly race division, be viewed against the historical backdrop of the racism in American society, in general.  In 1903, African-American sociologist W. E. B. DuBois pronounced that “the problem of the 20^th century is the problem of the color-line (The Souls of Black Folk).  And in 1944, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal discussed the plight of African Americans (the Negro Problem) within the context of what he referred to as the "American dilemma" (An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy).   This dilemma continues to exist some 74 years later.

What's Next: Chaos or Community?

Here's my commentary in the aftermath of the 234th Session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, May 2018 -

http://www.bwcumc.org/news-and-views/commentary-whats-next-chaos-or-community/

Ecclesial Justice: The Problem of Sunday Morning and the Move towards Beloved Community

Here is my lecture delivered at United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio on August 23, 2018.

Ecclesial Justice:
The Problem of Sunday Morning and the Move towards Beloved Community, part 1

https://www.facebook.com/jason.jordangriffin/videos/10106317187033350/?t=2

Ecclesial Justice: 

The Problem of Sunday Morning and the Move towards Beloved Community, part 2

https://www.facebook.com/jason.jordangriffin/videos/10106317290845310/?t=2

Reflections on immigration and how we are to treat our young people

Click here for some reflections on immigration and how we are to treat our young people -

https://www.facebook.com/anthony.hunt.7/videos/10216104363657629/

A gift from some of my Beloved Community students

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

On Colin Kaeperick

It should not be forgotten that the original stated purpose for Colin Kaepernick’s protest at the start of NFL games beginning in 2016 was not a protest of the American flag, but a protest against a pattern of unprosecuted police violence against Black Americans. It also should not be forgotten that Kaepernick continues to be blackballed by the same NFL owners who today have unanimously adopted this policy. I continue, as I have since last fall, to act in solidarity with others as we engage in economic withdrawal (a boycott) of the NFL, and it’s associated activities. This is in the spirit of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who spoke of the efficacy of economic withdrawal on the night before his assassination 50 years ago. #staywoke

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