How Do We Walk Our Faith?
We support the Louis D. Brown Peace Brown Institute and walk as a TBZ community in the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace!
A thought-provoking Kiddush Talk on Saturday, May 6th
Hear from Boston community leaders Chaplain Clementina Chéry, Reverend Irene Monroe,
and TBZ’s own Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett
Join us as we discuss the crisis of systemic violence in our neighboring communities, how local experts are working to prevent and heal from it, and what we can do as allies to promote peace. In support of the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, this conversation will provide a lens for our community to understand the issues that are plaguing our cities.
TBZ members have been active participants in the Annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace for the last 5 years and our community has stepped up to support the Institute both with our feet and with our donations. Help us meet our fundraising goal of $5000 this year!
Donations support the important work of the LDBPI – a center for healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief, and loss. Donations can be made on behalf of the TBZ Team HERE.
For more information contact Barrie Keller or Judy Schechtman
Chaplain Clementina Chéry
Chaplain Clementina Chéry is the Founder, President & CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. The Peace Institute is a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief, and loss. Chaplain Chéry and her family founded the Peace Institute in 1994 after her 15-year-young son Louis D. Brown was murdered in the crossfire of a shootout .Chaplain Chéry has developed the best practices in the field of homicide response. Her professional goal is to transform society’s response to homicide so that all families are treated with dignity and compassion, regardless of the circumstances. Her spiritual goal is to become a Minister of God’s Peace that is rooted in love, unity, faith, hope, courage, justice, and forgiveness. In 2023, she launched The Peace Principle, a podcast where she leads conversations on ways to heal our wounded hearts. Chaplain Chéry received an honorary Doctorate of Ministry from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and was ordained as a senior chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplain, Inc. in 2012. Her greatest accomplishments are being the mother of Louis, Alexandra and Allen, and the grandmother of Alexander, Adriel, and Amani.
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is the Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, an Associate at Harvard’s Center for Primary Care, and a Health Innovators Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a highly competitive fellowship that catalyzes leaders to improve US health care. At BMC, she has served in multiple leadership roles including as a chief resident, Director of Integrative Medicine, Medical Director, Residency Director, and Vice Chair. Her primary clinical interests are behavioral health, preventive medicine, nutrition, trauma informed care, gender affirming care, women’s health, reproductive care, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and group medical care. Dr. Gergen Barnett is involved in local and state health policy addressing health inequities, national policy addressing primary care delivery, and is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, Boston Public Radio, and multiple television outlets.
Reverend Irene Monroe
The Rev. Irene Monroe, is a public theologian, ordained minister, columnist, and a nationally acclaimed activist. She can be heard weekly on the podcast and broadcast Boston Public Radio segment” All Rev’d Up” on WGBH Radio (89.7 FM). Monroe is the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and History UnErased. Monroe’s columns appear locally in Bay Windows, Bay State Banner, Cambridge Chronicle, Dig Boston, Op-eds pieces in the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and in several cities across the country and in the U.K, and Canada. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, she was instrumental in Union United Methodist Church, a predominately African American church in Boston’s South End, becoming a Reconciling Congregation, first in New England. Monroe has taught at Harvard, Andover Newton Theological Seminary, Episcopal Divinity School and UNH. Monroe is a founder and now member emeritus of several national LGBTQ+ black and religious organizations, and as an activist Monroe has received numerous awards. Her papers are at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College’s Research Library on the History of Women in America. As an activist Monroe has received numerous awards. By reporting religion in the news she aims to highlight how religious intolerance and fundamentalism not only shatters the goal of American democracy, but also aids in perpetuating other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism and anti-Semitism.