The Importance of Confirmation amp Confirmation Equivalent Practices in the Era of Black Lives Matter Presented by The Rev Shonda Nicole Gladden Allen Temple AME Church Pastor The Confirmation Project AME Research Team Member ID: 532707
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Confirmation & Identity Formation:The Importance of Confirmation & Confirmation Equivalent Practices in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Presented by:The Rev. Shonda Nicole Gladden, Allen Temple AME Church PastorThe Confirmation Project: AME Research Team MemberSlide2
“Vivid images of Jim Crow, picket lines, mass meetings, and hate crimes are etched in my memory of early adolescence as though it were yesterday. These events were enough to pull most youth and their families to the abyss of hopelessness. However, my African American community, especially the church, was the womb of hope protecting its youth from despair while nurturing their expectation… I marvel at the ability of my congregation and its constituent churches to foster hope in teenagers amidst the turbulent events of the time.”
-Evelyn J. Parker, PhD. Trouble Don’t Last Always: Emancipatory Hope Among African American AdolescentsSlide3
“The formative culture of the colonies demeaned the African as human being, by associating blackness, and thus black people, with evil… [it] devalued community and idolized the individual… this cultural conflict has not been resolved in contemporary American life. As African Americans struggle with the pull of a secular, materialistic, hedonistic, narcissistic, and pessimistic culture, they also experience, to varying degrees, the magnetic hold of a spiritual, integrated, communal and hopeful, counter-culture. African-American Christian faith is in part a response to this cultural conflict, attempting to navigate, with varying degrees of success, a course between the old and the new, the familiar and the strange.”
- James H. Evans, Jr., PhD We Have Been Believers: An African- American Systematic TheologySlide4
Parker Palmer posits that individuation, or identity formation, is an ever evolving core within where our genetics (biology), culture, loved ones, those we cared for, people who have harmed us and people we have harmed, the deeds done (good and ill) to self and others, experiences lived, and
choices made come together to form who we are at this moment.Slide5
This moment…
Image source: Inside Korea “MI Governor Names Panel to fix Flint’s Contaminated Water”
http://theinsidekorea.com/2016/01/28/mi-governor-names-panel-to-fix-flints-contaminated-water/Slide6
This moment…
Image source: Gawker.com “Unarmed People of Color Killed By Police 1999-2014” http://www.lusakatimes.com/2015/06/23/council-of-churches-in-zambia-mourns-charleston-church-shooting-victims/Slide7
This moment…
Source: Lusaka Times “Charleston Shooting Victims”
http
://www.lusakatimes.com/2015/06/23/council-of-churches-in-zambia-mourns-charleston-church-shooting-victims/Slide8
How do youth navigate identity formation in this moment
?Slide9
Three Site Visits
Spring 2014- Winter 2015Anderson Chapel AME
Killeen, TX
Reid Temple AME
Glenn Dale, MD
First AME
Las Vegas, NVSlide10
Anderson Chapel AME ChurchKilleen, TX
Rev. Dr. William Campbell, PastorSlide11
Reid Temple AME Church
Glenn Dale, MDRev. Dr. Lee P. Washington, Pastor Slide12
First AME ChurchLas Vegas, NV
Rev. Dr. Ralph Williamson, PastorSlide13
Summary
Identity formation is greatly impacted by socio-historic contextConfirmation and Confirmation Equivalent Practices that are relatable, relevant and real yield resultsStudents are listening everywhere; Confirmation and CEP Practitioners who are attentive to the myriad conversation partners in youth identity formation flourish. Slide14
Questions?
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Email: revsgladden@gmail.comSlide15
Confirmation & Identity Formation:The Importance of Confirmation & Confirmation Equivalent Practices in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Presented by:The Rev. Shonda Nicole Gladden, Allen Temple AME Church PastorThe Confirmation Project: AME Research Team Member