Black History Month
Black History Month calls us to celebrate the contributions of Black Americans today and throughout our history as a nation, to understand our country’s systemic inequities more deeply, and to recommit to dismantling racism within ourselves and our communities.
Watch Race and Reckoning: An Exploration Into Reparations
Sign up for 28 Days of Black History, a virtual exhibition that celebrates Black legacy in the U.S., emailed to you each evening.
Register for Black Lives Matter: What it is and What it ain’t, Feb 18 and 24, a two-part series that dispels some common myths about the BLM movement and explores ways to engage social justice more deeply.
Scroll through the Leadership Gallery of The Church Awakens:African Americans and the Struggle for Justice to learn more about the contributions of such Church luminaries as Bishop John T. Walker, Ms. Verna Dozier, Justice Thurgood Marshall, and the Rev. Absalom Jones, America’s first Black priest. EDOW.org
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PDF guide to the
Holy Week Videos.
Holy Week Guide7 Minutes for 7 Phrases
Ecumenical, Artistic, Response to the Mysteries of the Holy Week
The Falls Church Episcopal in Falls Church Virginia asked other churches to respond to the last seven phrases that Jesus said in an artistic and unique way. Each response is in the form of a video that is no more than seven minutes long. I am inviting you to engage in a daily discipline during Holy Week by watching the presentations and meditating on their messages.
I was a seminarian at The Falls Church and was asked to create a video based on the words, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." It is the first video in the series, and the music for the video was created by my sister Lynda. I hope this journey through Holy Week provides you with some spiritual food as we prepare to celebrate the Easter season.
Peace and Blessings,
Jamie+
Service YouTube Links
Phrase One (The Church of the Good Samaritan Episcopal, Clearwater, FL):
https://youtu.be/dI7QAoBqs54
Phrase Two (Faithpoint United Methodist Church, Urbana, MD):
https://youtu.be/GTn8WYdDSU0
Phrase Three (Rock Christian Church, Falls Church, VA):
https://youtu.be/4keYzitJlZI
Phrase Three (Church of the Holy Trinity Episcopal, and The Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet Middletown, CT):
https://youtu.be/iVfsp7ZPpU8
Phrase Four (Middletown United Methodist Church, Middletown, MD):
https://youtu.be/W8GTPsEZZho
Phrase Five (Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington, DC):
https://youtu.be/v_QqLY3RaGY
Phrase Six (The Church of The Epiphany Episcopal, Washington, DC):
https://youtu.be/-y3bAJrmzcY
Phrase Seven (The Falls Church Episcopal, Falls Church, VA):
https://youtu.be/A14Ufapn4lg
Good Friday Service (With All The Phrases Combined)
https://youtu.be/FbWg8kvztV0