Justice Week Jan. 17-22

Area residents are invited to several events that will take place on Northwestern College’s campus during Justice Week, Jan. 17–22, the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The acclaimed movie “Selma,” which tells the story of King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via a march from Selma, Ala., to the state’s capital of Montgomery in 1965, will be shown for free in the England Proscenium Theatre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17, and 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18. Optional discussions will follow each screening. “Selma” won an Oscar and Golden Globe for best original song in 2015 and was nominated for best picture in both awards competitions.

Dr. Rusty Hawkins, a scholar of civil rights history who teaches at Indiana Wesleyan University, will speak at a special chapel service at 10:05 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 18. He is co-editor of “Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after ‘Divided by Faith,’” which was drawn from papers delivered at a conference commemorating the 10th anniversary of Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s book, “Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.”

On Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 11:05 a.m., Jennifer Lucking will speak in chapel about human trafficking. She is the coordinator for human trafficking outreach for the Reformed Church in America’s Regional Synod of Canada.

The chapel speaker on Friday, Jan. 22, at 10:05 a.m., will focus on justice and prisons. The Rev. Bob Chell is pastor of the St. Dysmas of South Dakota congregation at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and previously served as a campus pastor.