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January 2020
DreamWeek2020 Opening Ceremony Breakfast with Keynote Speaker Paul Rusesabagina
Join us for the Opening Breakfast Ceremony as we celebrate the commencement of DreamWeek 2020, a 16-day summit of 200+ events in and around downtown San Antonio. This year’s theme is A Collective Vision. The ceremony will feature opening remarks from Mayor Ron Nirenberg, a presentation by keynote speaker, Paul Rusesabagina and a short presentation from DreamWeek Founder Shokare Nakpodia. Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from…
Find out more »Religion and Violence: It’s Complicated
Join us for a discussion of the complexities involved when discussing and living the relationship between religion/faith and violence. We will explore, among other topics, the types of violence targeted at religious groups and the types of violence committed in the names of religious groups. Roger C. Barnes, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at University of the Incarnate Word. Sajida Jalalzai, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Religion Department at Trinity University. Simran Jeet…
Find out more »Human Trafficking Town Hall Meeting
Learn the statistics about Human Trafficking and how not to be one. See how you can make a difference in your immediate environment!
Find out more »Vigil for Interfaith Justice
Join the the San Antonio chapter of The Poor People’s Campaign for an evening vigil and interfaith service for racial justice. A vigil and prayer service for racial justice would benefit those in attendance by being part of the process to validate the pain of the ever widening rupture in this society surrounding this issue. There are powerful effects of having groups of many faiths coming together to mourn and pray. The Poor People’s Campaign is calling for a moral…
Find out more »MLK: His Legacy of Resistance
From jail in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote “One may well ask: ‘How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?’ The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust…One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” It was King’s persistence in civil disobedience of unjust laws that finally began to break through long-standing…
Find out more »DreamWeek Pub Theology w/ Cary Clack, Tommy Calvert, Sr & Guests
Part 1 of 2 of Pub Theology's partnership with DreamWeek 2020! Pastor Gavin Rogers (Travis Park Church) and Cary Clack (Author and Columnist) will facilitate a conversation with leaders from our San Antonio community, including Tommy Calvert Sr. with Neighborhoods First Alliance, to talk about race, white supremacy, and Christian nationalism. How do we talk about race in a way that creates positive change and builds relationships with people from all walks of life? Pub Theology meets each week we…
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