Freedom Trail Sunday with Rev. Dr. William Yoo: Worship Service and Book Talk

Name: Freedom Trail Sunday with Rev. Dr. William Yoo: Worship Service and Book Talk
Start: 2025-09-28T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-28T17:00:00-04:00
Location: The First Church of Christ in Hartford

Schedule

Sun Sep 28 2025 at 10:30 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The First Church of Christ in Hartford | Hartford, CT

Join us for Freedom Trail Sunday at Center Church!
The Rev. Dr. William Yoo will lead us in worship on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon he will be giving a talk at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace
Worship:
10:30 AM, in the Historic Meetinghouse
675 Main Street, Hartford CT
Book Talk:
3 PM with light refreshments (free, registration required)
Hartford International University for Religion and Peace
77 Sherman Street Hartford, CT 06105.
To register for the book talk please visit the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-william-yoo-lecture-at-hiu-tickets-1587672423959?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
About William Yoo:
Rev. Dr. Yoo is Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has published books on African American Christianity, Asian American Christianity, Presbyterian history, and the histories of Indigenous rights activism and abolitionism in the United States. His book, What Kind of Christianity: A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church, received the 2023 Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council. His most recent book is Reckoning with History: Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Making of American Christianity. He is presently conducting research for a book project on Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement.
This event is co-sponsored by The First Church of Christ in Hartford, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, The Thomas Hooker Lectureship at Center Church, the Fred and Elizabeth Boyajian Lecture Fund, "Lest We Forget," and the Teacher's Library at Center Church