Hidden Figures: Excellence as Resistance - Black Church (Colossians 3:23-24)

In the film Hidden Figures, we meet three extraordinary women—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson—who navigated the oppressive confines of a segregated NASA in the 1960s. Picture them, sitting shoulder to shoulder in a cramped office, their minds ablaze with mathematics and engineering, dreaming of the stars, while society tried to keep them grounded. These women didn’t simply work for NASA; they worked as though they were crafting a masterpiece for the Creator Himself, knowing that every equation they solved, every barrier they broke, was a testament to their inherent dignity—a dignity that no unjust system could strip away.…