Get Out: De-Colonize Your Faith

Service Description

This course serves as a response to the question of "is christanity a white man's religion?" This transformative course explores the intersection of spirituality, colonization, and liberation. Students will examine how colonial structures have shaped much of modern religious understanding. We will discuss The Christ discover authentic biblical traditions and truths that predate slavery and colonial influence altogether. This course will make you put some weapons down while picking other tools up. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: * Identify key components of the Biblical faith * Analyze the historical History of the Kemetic and Christian narratives * Recognize harmful ideologies and practices that were originally foreign to Ancient Biblical peoples and the early Christian church * Develop critical thinking and research skills related to true biblical and liberating faith. Example course schedule, Week 2: Ancient African Spirituality Lesson: Before They Came - Our Gods and His Orishas - Pre-colonial African Religious Systems - Ancestor Veneration and Community - Astrology and Cosmology Week 3: African Christianity Before Colonization Lessons: Black Jesus • Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity • Coptic Traditions and Practices • African Christian Mysticism Other topics covered, * Voodoo, Hoodoo and Bible * Where was Jesus during slavery? and more! ***All resources for this course will be made available to all participates one(1) week prior to the start date.