Restorative Justice Events in May and June

Friday, May15, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Social Hall, Saturday, May 16, and Saturday, June 20, 10:00am – 11:30am, Jackson Chapel, Sunday, June 14, During Service

Join us for a Readers Theatre performance by members of our congregation of “Tough Case” by David S. Craig at Friday Fun Night on May

The play is about a restorative process as a response to a teenager’s vandalizing a home. You will see the process of providing healing and dialogue rather than a punitive response to the conflict. We will have discussion following with Judge S. Kerene Moore offering her reflections on restorative justice in Ann Arbor.
We continue our book discussion on Mariame Kaba’s book, We Do This “Til We Free Us on Saturday, May 16 and June, 20 at 10:00am in Jackson Chapel. Special presentation in June from Sissel Bridges on a comparison of US prison system and Norway’s. This is part of our engagement with the Congregational Study Action Issue of Abolition, Transformation
and Faith Formation.
Please join us at the Worship Service on Sunday, June 14 to share and see how we can begin to understand Abolition as a holistic approach to systemic social change that includes, but is not limited to: the abolition of slavery; and replacing systems and cultures of violence. And in the context of Unitarian Universalism we seek to offer a healing theology to replace thev”current” public theologies of retributive justice and violence. We hope to hear the voices of women serving life and long indeterminate sentences at Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility who seek to work with our community to bring about Abolition inside and
outside our penal system.