Lent 2026 VOICES Series
Wednesday, March 18: Elaine Weiss, 7-8:30 p.m.
The Underground Schools that built the Civil Rights Movement
Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist and narrative historian based in Baltimore. A Society of Professional Journalists prize-winner, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harper’s. She is the author of three acclaimed books: Spell Freedom (her latest work explores the underground schools of the Civil Rights Movement), The Woman’s Hour (a political thriller on the suffrage movement that won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and was adapted for young readers) and Fruits of Victory (a history of the Woman’s Land Army featured in Smithsonian Magazine.)
VOICES, the Redeemer Speaker Series, invites contemporary voices to challenge and inform us: they are artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once and find the wonder in both.
Please join us on Wednesday evenings in Lent for a simple brown bag supper at 6:00 p.m. in the parish hall. And at 7:00 p.m. we will gather in the church as we learn from a dynamic line up of speakers each inviting us to hear their stories and find more meaning in ours.
