The United States is in crisis with the future of our unfolding experiment in pluralist democracy unclear. Inspired by the integrity of urbanist and public intellectual Robert C. Wood, this year's Wood Visiting Professorship asks us to consider: What is our civic moral foundation for addressing the many challenges facing us locally, nationally, and globally? How are we fulfilling the covenantal promise of our nation and where are we falling short? How might we, individually and collectively, foster an inclusive vision of “We the People”? Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, and Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, each with a lifetime of morally centered integrity and public service, will help us explore how we might realize the values and virtues of the mythic “City on a Hill”—what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called "beloved community"—in Boston and beyond. They will also reflect on how we might reset and reactivate our “civic moral compass.”
Agenda
5 p.m. - Panel and Discussion/Lecture
Campus Center Ballroom
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6:45 p.m. - Reception
Alumni Lounge
Campus Center
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Reverend Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, serves as Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston and is the Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School. A graduate of Boston University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Harvard Divinity School, Rev. Gloria White-Hammond co-founded My Sister's Keeper in 2002, a humanitarian and human rights organization that champions social justice for women and girls in conflict zones.
Reverend Ray A. Hammond, MD is Senior Pastor at Bethel AME Church in Boston. Educated as a physician at Harvard Medical School, he earned his MA in the Study of Religion at Harvard University. His long history of involvement with youth and community activities includes co-founding the Ten Point Coalition, an ecumenical group of Christian clergy and lay leaders working to mobilize the greater Boston community around issues affecting youth.
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond is founding pastor of New Roots AME Church in Dorchester and has extensive background in embedding equity and environmental justice into Boston’s communities. In 2021, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond was appointed as Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston and served in this role for three years. She earned her Master of Divinity at the Boston University School of Theology.