Daily Skiff

March 27th, 2008

Annual Brite event in Dallas this weekend

The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright will no longer be attending, but the awards ceremony honoring him will go on as scheduled.

The 4th Annual State of the Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet will be held March 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, according to the Brite Divinity School Web site. The theme will be “Saving Our Souls Without Losing Our Minds: Redeeming the Social Teachings of the Black Church.”

Dr. Brad Braxton, a professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will be the keynote speaker, said an assistant to event organizer Stacey Floyd-Thomas who asked not to be identified.

Friendship-West will also host a National Studies Forum Friday afternoon, an event for black studies programs from around the country to meet and discuss issues in the black community, Floyd-Thomas’s assistant said.

Saturday, a luncheon panel discussion will be held at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Floyd-Thomas’s assistant said. Tickets for the forum and panel are each $15 and free to Brite Students, the assistant said.

Tickets to the awards ceremony are $125 or $1,000 for an eight-person table.

In a March 26 interview with the Skiff, the Rev. Rickey Hill, executive pastor for Friendship-West, said Brite always knew the door was open for his church to move the ceremony if TCU backed out.

“Not only were the doors closed at TCU, they were closed all over Fort Worth,” Hill said. “I’m ashamed of that, being from Fort Worth.”

Floyd-Thomas and other Brite administrators would not return calls asking for comment.

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