{"id":16578,"date":"2023-10-01T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2023-10-01T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T17:00:56","slug":"black-angels-of-the-green-mountains-the-challenge-of-black-abolitionists-in-antebellum-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/black-angels-of-the-green-mountains-the-challenge-of-black-abolitionists-in-antebellum-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Angels of the Green Mountains: The Challenge of Black Abolitionists in Antebellum Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >FCCEJ Racial Justice Group Speaker Series<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Sunday, October 15th at 3pm<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_two_third  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-16564 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-16564 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rev_arnold_thomas_scaled.jpg\" alt='' title='rev_arnold_thomas_scaled' height=\"800\" width=\"600\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rev_arnold_thomas_scaled.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rev_arnold_thomas_scaled-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rev_arnold_thomas_scaled-529x705.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h5>A discussion of racial equity in our state and country with Reverend Arnold Isidore Thomas, B.A., M. Div., D. Min.<\/h5>\n<p>Are you concerned about racial equity in our state and country? Would you like to learn about the history and how to move forward? Please join us for a lively lecture and discussion about this very important topic. This event is open to the public, so bring a friend!<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Thomas is currently the pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jericho, VT. Prior to returning to Vermont he served as Minister for Education, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations at the Riverside Church in New York City and Adjunct Professor of Religion at New York Theological Seminary. Dr. Thomas received his BA from Hiram Collage, his Master of Divinity from Yale University and his Doctorate in Ministry from Hartford Seminary. He has a long and rich resume including lead roles in local repertory theater and is a lyricist whose words have been published in hymns.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16581,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/16581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}