Justice and Mercy | OSLC Sun Prairie

A call to Justice and Mercy (JAM)

What does God require of you but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

OSLC Justice and Mercy (JAM) group has sponsored classes this year looking at Patterns of Injustice. In classes that will cover 7 weeks, we have looked at the Indigenous Experience including an outside speaker, Michelle Cloud from the HoChunk Nation, the Asian Experience and in October we will cover the Mexican/Latinx experience with an outside speaker, Professor Benjamin Marquez from the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin.

The November classes will be:
November 3 – The History of our Relationship with the Mexican/Latinx
peoples
November 10 – The History of
Immigration Law and Deportations
November 17 – Professor Marquez will
speak on DACA and the Possibilities for
Immigration Reform

ALL ARE WELCOME!

We all are called to do justice and love mercy. Jesus calls us to love our neighbor. As Christians we should be and are frustrated and troubled by the racism we see in our world, our country, and in our own communities. The question before us is how can we help to bring change to the effects of racism? The first step needed is to learn about racism. How do we talk about it? How did racism come to be? How does it show up in our daily lives? We must know about it to do something about it. So we begin to learn about racism, its language, its history, and how it still continues in subtle and not so subtle ways in our society.

The first session will begin Sunday, September 17, between services. There are plans for 3 different sessions throughout this 2023-24 year. A branch of Church and Society, this task force, known as JAM, has spent the past year in planning for these learning events.