Sunday, February 11, 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Adult education opportunities are held at 10:00 am most Sundays in the Social Hall. All are welcome to bring a cup of coffee and engage with the topic of the day.
February 11
Sojourner Truth
with Rev. Dr. Nancy Koester
Rev. Dr. Nancy Koester, author and historian, will be presenting on on Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. Born into slavery in the state of New York in 1797, she became free around the age of 30. She became a traveling preacher who spoke for human rights as God’s gift to every person. During the Civil War, Truth went to Washington DC to meet Abraham Lincoln and to work with the freedpeople who flocked to the nation’s Capitol. Over her long life Truth spoke for many social reforms, based on her belief that God loves all people equally. Copies of Koester’s book, We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth (2023) will be available for $20.00.
Here’s a quote from the back of the book: “In We Will Be Free, Nancy Koester helps us move beyond the superficial knowledge we have of Sojourner Truth and takes us into the spirit of a woman whose life should inspire and inform us all. This is more than the biography of a single, remarkable woman, it tells the story of the whole nation—halting steps toward freedom, the risk and rewards of speaking the truth and, most of all, the unflagging hope that change is possible.” — Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism.