Join the Church of the Larger Fellowship and the new Worthy Now Network for a monthly lecture series on issues related to prison and justice ministry. Each month, we feature a lecture and discussion with a different perspective to offer. Lecturers include professional chaplains, experts, justice advocates, community organizers and members of the CLF’s Prison Ministry.

Each month we’ll look at one piece of this puzzle as we work together to bring a message of hope and value to those living in incarceration around the country.

These lectures run the gamut on topics: mass incarceration and human rights, the challenges of re-entry after incarceration, intersectional justice issues, the work of doing ministry and service with those who are incarcerated, just to name a few.

October 21 – Join us Friday at 7:00 PM ET for our inaugural lecture.

Sarah Romano and Kacey Keeton will join us. Romano is an investigator for Federal Defenders from the Middle District of Alabama. Keeton is the attorney for Robin “Rocky” Myers. Rocky faces execution even after an overwhelmingly white jury recommended life without parole due to a judicial override of the recommended sentence, a practice that was ruled unconstitutional. Learn more about Rocky’s case and its current status and sign a petition urging Governor Bentley to grant clemency.

Robin “Rocky” Myers is a 53-year-old intellectually disabled black man who was convicted in Alabama of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1993 for a crime he did not commit.

Future Lectures (3rd Fridays, 7pm Eastern)

November 18 – Jason Lydon, founder of prison abolition group Black and Pink, on trans* issues in prison.

December 16 – James Ortiz, CLF member and former participant in the CLF’s Prison Ministry, will share his story and reflections on his experiences while incarcerated and since regaining his freedom. (tentative)

January 20 – TBD

February 17 – Tim DeChristopher, environmental justice activist, on the intersection of prison-industrial complex and environmental justice.

March 17 – Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (tentative)

April 21 – TBD

May 19 – TBD

Full schedule details will be released as they are determined. Have a suggestion? Email worthynow@clfuu.org.

For more information, see our 2016-2017 Lecture Series Facebook page.

To learn more and register for an upcoming lecture, click here.