Using the parables of Jesus found throughout the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, this semester’s kick-off chapel series imagines what it will take to make the kin-dom of God a reality here and now. Coinciding with the start of Black History Month, the service on Feb. 5 will explore the question of “What is the Kin-dom in the Midst of Empire?” As we all reckon with the ways in which empires and state violence have, and continue to, cut the lives of Black individuals and communities short, how do we build and foster resilience? In the face of the traumas instilled by white body supremacy, how can we come together and heal in community? For more information about this Christian worship service, contact spirituallife@su.edu