Blue-Eyed: For the Visually Impaired
Do you have twenty-twenty vision? If not (and Lasik surgery does not count!), the following event is just what the doctor ordered. On September 24th, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Multnomah Biblical Seminary's Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins will be showing the video, Blue-Eyed, which features Jane Elliott. Ms. Elliott is one of America's leading educators on racial perceptions. Her work has been featured on PBS' Frontline, the Tonight Show, Today, Donahue, ABC News, and Oprah. Through this video, you will witness one of Elliott's highly regarded workshops in which she helps the participants become more sensitive to racial discrimination. She does so by helping people experience first hand the emotional trauma of racism.
Racially charged speech as well as discrimination based on physical attributes, even eye color, can have a devastating effect on people of another hue. In a country divided along black and white lines, and in which black people are forced to live in a white man's world, Elliott helps us to experience first-hand the shoe being placed on the other foot—the white one, for a change. However, this video has something to say to everyone, for people of all color experience discrimination to some extent and even propagate it.
The title of this event is "Blue-Eyed: For the Visually Impaired." We are honored to have Pastor Emmett Wheatfall as our moderator and facilitator for the evening. Rev. Wheatfall is the Pastor of Remember the Hope Christian Fellowship right here in Portland. He also serves as a Corporate Ethics and Compliance Specialist for Portland General Electric, and he was the moderator for the 2002 PGE Diversity Summit at the Oregon Convention Center where Jane Elliott was a featured speaker. Following the video, Rev. Wheatfall will facilitate a discussion helping us to process the material viewed, while challenging us to live according to God's biblical mandate.
This conference will be held at Multnomah Biblical Seminary, in Travis-Lovitt Hall, rooms 111 & 112. Parking can be found on Glisan Street or at Central Bible Church (88th & Glisan). Registration is at the door beginning at 6 p.m. We are requesting a $6.00 donation from all who attend. For more information on this and other upcoming events, as well as directions to Multnomah, please call Tracy Spitler at 503-251-6767.
All Americans, especially Christian leaders and leaders in training, need to make sure their vision on racial discrimination is twenty-twenty. This event will serve as sight for the blind and for the visually impaired, too. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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