Nob Hill neighbors,

You are invited to attend an education event we are hosting at Monte Vista Christian Church.  Details below.  We ask that you register so we can prepare food and space to accommodate everyone.  Registration link is below.  Payment can be made at the door.

How Did We Get Here? Christian Nationalism & Environmental Justice in New Mexico 

A Workshop Presented by the Social Justice Ministry of Monte Vista Christian Church

Saturday, January 4, 2025

8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Monte Vista Christian Church

Bethany Hall

3501 Campus Blvd NE (parking entrance at Grand & Berkley Place)

Albuquerque, NM 87106

$5 registration fee, paid at the door, please pre-register here, 

https://forms.gle/TrNmcVCuKjqkGzbLA, so we can prepare for your participation

8:30 AM          Registration/Snacks

9:00 AM          The History of Christian Nationalism

10:30 AM        Break

11:00 AM        Environmental Justice in New Mexico

12:30 PM        Lunch

Workshop Leader

- The Rev. David Wilson Rogers

- Master of Divinity from Lexington Theological Seminary and a Master of Communication from Eastern New Mexico University

- For the last 23 years he has served as the Pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Carlsbad, New Mexico where he is a bi-vocational pastor with a secondary calling as the Program Director for Carlsbad Life House running a 26-bed drug and alcohol inpatient rehabilitation center.  

- Dave has spent decades advocating for Social Justice, Civil Rights, Voter Rights, Gender Equality, Peace, LGBTQ+ Rights, Environmentalism, and Human Rights in Kentucky and New Mexico. 

- Beginning as an historian and professor at the College level, he began a detailed historical study of the delicate dance between religion and national politics giving rise to his personal understanding of the history of Christian Nationalism. 

- Living in the Permian Basin, his passion for environmental justice has been accentuated by the explosive increase in fossil fuel extraction in the Permian Basin. 

- As a part of his activism, Dave has spoken at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Madrid, Spain and the White House before the Biden Administration’s Commission on Climate Change.