A New Spiritual Contract: Individual Healing for Collective Transformation

This evening we explore tools for building a new Spiritual Contract with yourself and communities. Through ritual and conversation, we’ll learn from healer and organizer Dr. Dayanara Marte some of the practices and possibilities to “go beyond survival and restore our spiritual integrity.”
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Welcome to Spiritual Revolution, a Relevant Religion Series from Vanderbilt Divinity School. This is an apocalyptic time, ripe with divine possibilities. The root of the word apocalypse means to uncover, to reveal. Our world has long been on fire, designed to indulge a few through the oppression and labor of many, and we have been trained to think this normal, inevitable, “just the way things are.” And so often our habits of faith and theology have buttressed these violent norms.
This series has been visioned by the Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership; the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality; the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies; the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative ; the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture Program; and the Wendland -Cook Program in Religion and Justice. We are so grateful to be in the work with you.