McCormick Initiatives
The Solidarity Building Initiative (SBI) at McCormick Theological Seminary is an abolition project rooted and propelled in and by a spirit of solidarity. Our solidarity is exemplified by utilizing our resources and privileges in the service of cultivating justice for and with those who have been marginalized by the criminal punishment system. As an abolition project, we seek to be creators, builders, and gardeners of the vital systems of nourishment, support and healing that many communities impacted by incarceration are deprived of. We exist to create an ecosystem of beloved community. Liberative Carceral Education is our garden for solidarity-building and justice-making.
The mission of The Center for Reparatory Justice, Transformation, and Remediation is to promote/advance consciousness of reparatory justice and engender communities of practice and practitioners engaged in the reparations movement for people of African descent within local, national and global communities.
The Center is unapologetic in its goal to situate faith, theology, and ministry in the public discourse on reparations, reparatory justice, and models of remedy to address centuries of foundational and systemic racism in America grounded in faith.
