{"id":30,"date":"2018-11-06T21:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2021-07-23T20:54:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:54:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 768px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30-1\" width=\"768\" height=\"300\" autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/05\/Header-video-compressed-2.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/05\/Header-video-compressed-2.m4v\">https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/05\/Header-video-compressed-2.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Finding Christ Church: Social Justice in history, memory, and contemporary practice, 1819-2019<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Approaching the 200th anniversary of its founding as an Anglican mission in 1819, the community of Christ Church, Chatham has posed the central challenge of the project: to document and engage the rich but underexplored antislavery and civil rights history of the church community, and to ask how the church\u2019s history can inform its understanding of social justice practice in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Integrated as a community-based learning component of History courses at Huron, the project draws on student research assistants working in Huron\u2019s Community History Centre and the Centre for Public Theology.\u00a0 The project is a critical intervention in public discourse on slavery in its historical and contemporary forms. Moving into its anniversary year in the Fall of 2019, Christ Church will have tangible research resources to contextualize its social justice past and to address the urgent challenges posed by the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent, and by the Anglican Church in Canada\u2019s designation of 2018 as a \u201cFreedom Year\u201d to combat modern slavery.<\/p>\n<p><em>Finding Christ Church <\/em>is a research partnership between the Historical Committee of Christ Church Chatham, and Huron University College faculty members Dr. Gary Badcock, Dr. Amy Bell, and Dr. Nina Reid-Maroney, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Christ Church: Social Justice in history, memory, and contemporary practice, 1819-2019 Approaching the 200th anniversary of its founding as an Anglican mission in 1819, the community of Christ Church, Chatham has posed the central challenge of the project: to document and engage the rich but underexplored antislavery and civil rights history of the church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/findingchristchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}