Book Reading: Their Own Receive Them Not (NY)
The Riverside Church’s Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns Sponsors Book Reading About Black Gay Christians
Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, will sponsor a book reading, panel discussion, signing and reception for a provocative new book, Their Own Receive Them Not, African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches by Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at the Riverside Church, 7:00 p.m.
Their Own Receive Them Not, nominated as a finalist for the 19th Lambda Literary Awards in the category of LGBTQ Studies, provides a historical overview and critical analysis of the black church and its current engagement with lesbian and gay Christians, and shares ways in which black churches can learn to reach out and confront all types of oppression – not just race – in order to do the work of the black community.
Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin, an openly gay African-American Christian pastoral theologian and seminary professor, offers new approaches to understanding scripture and homosexuality through pastoral theology and black liberation theology. An Episcopal priest, Dr. Griffin teaches pastoral theology and is director of field education at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. Dr. Griffin received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, a M.Div. from Boston University and a B.A. from Morehouse College.
The event will take place at The Riverside Church, on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 9T. The Riverside Church is located at 91 Claremont, 490 Riverside Drive between 120th and 122nd Streets.
The event is co-sponsored by Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), Griot Circle, Inc., The Maua Flowers Institute, National Black Justice Coalition, New York State Black Gay Network, LGBT Community Center’s Out and Faithful, Empire State Pride Agenda’s Pride in the Pulpit, Rehoboth Temple Christ Conscious Church, SAGE NYC, Unity Fellowship Church of New Brunswick, NJ, Unity Fellowship Church of Christ.
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ABOUT MARANATHA: RIVERSIDERS FOR LGBT CONCERNS
AND THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH
Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, is committed to serving God by fostering greater understanding while promoting equity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning people. To these ends, we have organized our ministry to serve, advocate, and support the LGBTQ community.
The Riverside Church is an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ), inter-racial and international church in New York City, famous not only for its elaborate, gothic style architecture – which includes the world’s largest carillon – but also as a center for progressive causes. The mission of the Church is to serve God through word and witness; to treat all human beings as sisters and brothers; and to foster responsible stewardship of all God’s creation. The Church commits itself to welcoming all persons, celebrating the diversity found in a congregation broadly inclusive of persons from different backgrounds of race, economic class, religion, culture, ethnicity, gender, age and sexual orientation.