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COMMUNITY
Becoming Beloved Community
As the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement, we dream and work to foster Beloved Communities where all people may experience dignity and abundant life and see themselves and others as beloved children of God. The Becoming Beloved Community Vision Document and accompanying resources help us to understand and take up the long-term commitments necessary to form loving, liberating and life-giving relationships with each other. Together, we are growing as reconcilers, justice-makers, and healers in the name of Christ.
Good Samaritan is currently engaged in Sacred Ground -- a film and reading-based program on race, grounded in faith. Sacred Ground is part of the Episcopal Church's Becoming a beloved Community program.
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Zoom Meeting ID - 832 6892 2262
Zoom Passcode - 2165
Websites & Other Online Resources
10 Ways to Fight - Hate: A Community Response Guide
Southern Poverty Law Center
Beloved Community: Commission for Dismantling Racism
Diocese of Atlanta
ChurchNext
Engaging and convenient online learning from Episcopal experts on liturgy, evangelism, welcome, discipleship, stewardship and other important topics.
Code Switch: Race & Identity Remixed (Podcast)
National Public Radio Podcast Series
Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America
The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi hosted a 90-minute forum.
Film: Traces of the Trade
Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide.
How to Talk to Children about Race
Kids and Race
Lenten series on racial justice
Especially recommended: “Spirituality and Racial Justice” with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice
Videos and readings from Trinity Institute 2016. Especially recommended: the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas’ video presentation.
Map of Hate Groups by State and Localities
Southern Poverty Law Center
Prayers of the People and a Litany of Repentance and Commissioning for the Ministry of Justice and Reconciliation
Created by a subcommittee of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music
Racial Justice Bibliography
Print resources compiled by theological educators for use in a variety of faith community settings.
Sojourners Magazine
The Time for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Is Now
By: Gail C. Christopher
To Serve and Protect: The Police, Race, and The Episcopal Church in the Black Lives Matter Era
Anglican Theological Review article by The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart
TransEpiscopal
TransEpiscopal is a group of transgender and allied Episcopalians dedicated to fostering the full embrace of trans and nonbinary people, and our loved ones within The Episcopal Church and to inspiring faith-based advocacy for trans justice in the wider world. We are an informal group and though many of us are affiliated with The Episcopal Church we have no official relationship to The Episcopal Church.
Under Our Skin
Seattle Times project on race and racism. Features video interviews with numerous Seattle residents, including the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel
Virginia Bishops on Charlottesville:
Books & Articles
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Jim Wallis - 2016
Gayle Fisher-Stewart
Americanah
Ngozi Adichie – 2014
Blood Cries Out from the Ground: Reflections from Ferguson
Anglican Theological Review article by The Rt. Rev. Wayne Smith
Bloody July
An article written by The Rev. Deacon Charles Allen Wynder, Jr., is the Episcopal Church’s missioner for social justice and advocacy engagement.
Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice
Tammerie Day
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
Jennifer Harvey - 2014
Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives
Howard J. Ross
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well:
The Permanence Of Racism
Derrick Bell - 1993
For Some Christians Talking about Race Is Tough and Long Overdue
Online article from the Washington Post, July 19, 2016
It’s Never Too Soon to Talk about Race in Your Church
Online article and audio interview with Jemar Tisby
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America
Catherine Meeks
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Victor Rios - 2011
Race Matters
Cornel West - 1994
Race: A Theological Account
J. Kameron Carter
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
John A. Powell - 2015
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision
for Justice, Peace and Healing
Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
To Serve and Protect: The Police, Race, and The Episcopal Church in the Black Lives Matter Era
Special project by Trinity Wall Street, published in The Living Church
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
Kelly Brown Douglas - 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Time for Truth, Racial Healing,
and Transformation Is Now
Gail C. Christopher
Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race
Frances E. Kendall
What's Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
Kelly Brown Douglas
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us
and What We Can Do
Claude M. Steele - 2011
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - 2016
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk
About Race and How to Do It
Shelly Tochluk