ABOUT The Healing of The Nations
REVEREND DR. JAMES A. FORBES, JR., Founder
Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. is the recipient of fourteen honorary degrees, including D.D. degrees from Princeton University, Trinity College, Colgate University, and University of Richmond. In 1996 Newsweek recognized Forbes as one of the twelve “most effective preachers” in the English-speaking world.
Union Theological Seminary named Forbes the first Harry Emerson Fosdick Adjunct Professor of Preaching in 1989, the same year he was installed as fifth senior minister of Riverside Church in New York City. His installment rendered him the first African American senior minister of one of the largest multicultural and interdenominational congregations in the United States. Following his address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, Forbes led an interfaith rally and demonstration at Riverside Church as part of the Church’s Mobilization 2004 campaign. In 2007 he formed the Healing of the Nations Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit, national ministry of healing and spiritual revitalization.
Healing of the Nations Foundation
The Healing of the Nations Juneteenth Celebration was a vision of Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. and Mrs. Bettye Forbes, founded in 2015 while Dr. Forbes was senior pastor at Riverside Church in New York. The vision was to use the power of spiritual liturgy and the performing arts as tools of human transformation to heal the festering wounds endemic in contemporary America, including systemic racism, religious tension, and economic injustice. The Healing of the Nations initiatives engage other organizations and community groups from diverse ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds to foster and generate understanding, tolerance, humanness, and perhaps even love, where hatred, discord, and bigotry exist.
Our Mission
Healing of The Nations Foundation (HON) is a national non-profit faith-based corporation that creates transformative dialogues and events to heal the wounds of racial, religious, and economic injustice festering in our nation.
Our Vision
One nation, under God, with liberty, human rights, and justice for all.
What We Are Doing
HON partners with organizations and community groups across the country to develop events and dialogues involving people from diverse ages, races, and socio-economic backgrounds. Through these collaborative efforts we seek to (bring/foster/instill/generate) understanding, tolerance, humanness, and perhaps even love, where hatred, discord, and bigotry exist.
Who We Are
The Healing of the Nations Foundation is a faith-based 501 (c) 3 corporation aimed at healing the festering wounds endemic in contemporary America, including systemic racism, religious tension, and economic injustice.
Our Point of View
We believe in the transformative power of dialogue to heal the ills of separation, hate, and divisiveness.[
