Archive for Justice Journey
Justice Journey II
September 19th, 2008
We finally aired the programs focusing on the Justice Journey on Midday Connection. I felt like it was akin to giving birth, frankly. The Justice Journey itself was such an emotional experience and I realized during the course of recording the programs that I couldn’t begin to fully convey the essense of the experience. Still, I had to try. I was surprised and touched by the email response we received in our Midday Connection email box. I felt like people did hear our hearts. With me on the program was Pierre Chestang, one of my Moody Radio colleagues and a friend for about 30 years now. I wanted Pierre to go because he’s black. I wanted to be able to dialog about this experience with the other participants on the Journey, but also with someone of another race that I’d worked on and off with for a number of years and someone who knew the climate of our workplace. I’m so glad Pierre was able to go. I know the Justice Journey made a deep impact on my soul and you’ll hear in the broadcasts if you head back to our archives, that the same was true for Pierre. To listen to the two days of Justice Journey programs head to www.middayconnection.org and click on the “past programs” tab and go to Sept. 18 and 19. I think you’ll be encouraged and challenged.
Justice Journey
August 14th, 2008
My husband and I had the amazing experience of being a part of a bus tour called The Justice Journey. We traveled from Chicago to the major civil rights sites of the south. The purpose of the Justice Journey, in large part, was Christian reconciliation. The bus had participants in almost equal numbers who were black and white. Each day you had to sit with someone of another race and/or another church, someone you didn’t know. Questions were posed by the tour leader for you and your seatmate to talk about. The idea was to help us go deep fast. We only had a week. I realized how much of my U.S. History I didn’t know/remember, or wasn’t taught. I can’t even fully describe the impact of walking through the Civil Rights Museum, or the Martin Luther King, Jr. museum along side my black brothers and sisters. It was an emotional week, an enlightening week, and certainly a life changing week. To hear more about The Justice Journey tune in to Midday Connection on September 18 and 19. You can listen to Midday Connection live at Noon Central time at www.middayconnection.org To see pictures of The Justice Journey click on the following link.
