6th Annual IREJN Earthkeeper Dinner

We are excited to invite you to our 6th Earthkeeper Dinner on Thursday, May 9, 2024

Come to IREJN’s wonderful Earthkeepers Dinner, enjoy a delicious gourmet vegetarian/vegan meal, and network with interfaith environmental activists from around the state.

Our keynote speaker and the winner of the 2024 Earthkeeper Award will be nationally-recognized preacher, author, and justice activist, Deacon Art Miller.

Join us to hear his inspiring call to action!

Join us for a cash bar at 6PM, dinner at 6:45PM, program starting at 7:30PM.

Tickets

• Members: $80
• Non-members: $90
• Membership + Dinner: $130

S ponsorships available, please inquire at [email protected].

eacon, author, radio host, revivalist and retired businessman, Deacon Art Miller is the former director of the Office for Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of Hartford.  In addition to his assigned parishes, he is also the Catholic chaplain at Hartford’s Capital Community College.
 
A nationally known preacher of God’s Holy Scripture, he has traveled throughout the country raising the need of conversion to “Radical Love”. The kind of self-denying love that can only be accomplished through the grace and power offered to us through Jesus Christ.  Deacon Miller has preached throughout the United States – from New England to the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast of Mississippi, from the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico, to the south side of Chicago; he teaches and preaches Christ’s call to His life-changing “Radical Love”.
 
At public forums, houses of worship, schools and universities across the country, Deacon Miller addresses issues of social injustice. With firsthand knowledge he speaks to his audiences from the perspective of an African American who grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s.  Deacon Miller was 10 years old in 1955 when his schoolmate Emmett Till, age 14, was brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman — an incident that energized the nascent Civil Rights Movement.  His book, (published by AuthorHouse, 2005), details the historic events seen through the eyes of Emmett’s friends.
 
Today, Deacon Miller addresses 21st-century examples of the same intolerance and sees such racial divisiveness as an example of “human hatred that is the result of what happens when one group seeks power by dehumanization.”  Echoing the thoughts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he believes that as part of the great human experience, no one can sit idly tolerant of the great injustices that happen anywhere in the world.
 
“If God were to give us an 11th commandment,” Deacon Miller proposes, “I believe it would read: Thou shall not be a bystander.”

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