Responding to History Through Reparations: What Does it Mean to Be “Repairers of the Breach?”

Like most historic, predominantly white, NYC churches, MAPC’s beginnings are entangled with the economy based on the enslavement of Black people.  How did our church benefit from the institution of slavery, whether our founders directly enslaved other human beings or not? What does it mean to acknowledge those beginnings? What does it mean to engage in the work of repenting and repairing? What would reparations look like?  

We will begin to explore these questions at the Discipleship Lunch, led by Beverly Bartlett and the Racial Justice Task Force, on January 21st following the morning worship service. We will dive into some of MAPC’s and the larger Presbyterian Church’s history, and look at how some of our peer churches, and institutions like Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and Brown University, are beginning this work. Please come engage these hard questions with us!