Curated Resources for Racial Awareness, Reconciliation, and Justice
We commend this online course published by Anglican Theologian NT Wright. The course integrates biblical and theological themes with the topic of race and justice.
Want to learn more and watch a course preview? Click the link: https://www.ntwrightonline.org/portfolio-items/ethnicity-god/?portfolioCats=50%2C52%2C49%2C51
Want to learn more and watch a course preview? Click the link: https://www.ntwrightonline.org/portfolio-items/ethnicity-god/?portfolioCats=50%2C52%2C49%2C51
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Learn how racism has been a constant, pervasive force in U.S. history and the history of the Episcopal Church. Find out about concrete steps we can take to build a better culture going forward. The course is free through grants.
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The curriculum centers on six video sessions, each roughly 25 minutes long. They include:
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This Band of Sisterhood
Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church
Edited by Westina Matthews, Foreword by Catherine Meeks, Afterword by Paula Clark
Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church.
During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased feelings of division in our country, Black women clergy in the Episcopal Church have voiced a need to come together, believing that their experiences and concerns may be very different than those of other clergy. That need is answered here in This Band of Sisterhood.
The five Black women bishops featured in this book can provide a compass for how to journey along these new paths. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Carlye J. Hughes, Kimberly Lucas, Shannon MacVean-Brown, and Phoebe A. Roaf offer honest, vulnerable wisdom from their own lives that speaks to this time in American life.
Both women and men will find this book invaluable in discerning how God might be calling them to use their own leadership skills.
Free PDF Book Discussion Guide from Church Publishing
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Conversations on Race and Faith: The Sacred Ground Curriculum from VTS - Are you interested in reading, watching and learning about the history of race and racism in America and the impact it has on our world today – and engaging in meaningful conversation about change?
Join an online cohort and explore a rich curriculum focused on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific Americans as their histories intersect with European American history.
Join an online cohort and explore a rich curriculum focused on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific Americans as their histories intersect with European American history.
Explore the History of Race with Dr. John Hayes who recently visited St. Thomas, Huntsville to present a three- part series that explores the idea of race from its colonial beginnings to its reinvigoration after Reconstruction to its contested presence in the contemporary post-Civil Rights era. Learn how Episcopalians have played key roles in creating, sustaining, and sometimes challenging the idea of race.
Dr. John Hayes is a historian of the late 19th-20th century US South, with a focus on religion as it intersects with race and class and is also a fellow Episcopalian.
Click the tabs below to view the video presentations.
Dr. John Hayes is a historian of the late 19th-20th century US South, with a focus on religion as it intersects with race and class and is also a fellow Episcopalian.
Click the tabs below to view the video presentations.
Godly Play Raises Awareness about Anti-Racism with two new stories of People of Color who inspire!
These stories, developed by Jerome Berryman and Cheryl Minor, are meant to supplement the collection of stories about the saints in Volume 7 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play. The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Story of Bishop Barbara Harris (the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion).Two new stories are available as free downloads for the first six months, on Dr. King and Bishop Barbara Harris, with more stories to follow the first two. Many thanks to good folks at Church Publishing for making these resources available to us (free!) for the first six months. Download the files below:
These stories, developed by Jerome Berryman and Cheryl Minor, are meant to supplement the collection of stories about the saints in Volume 7 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play. The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Story of Bishop Barbara Harris (the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion).Two new stories are available as free downloads for the first six months, on Dr. King and Bishop Barbara Harris, with more stories to follow the first two. Many thanks to good folks at Church Publishing for making these resources available to us (free!) for the first six months. Download the files below:
Let's Fight Racism Together Through Education: Take 5 Classes, Earn an Affirmation of Awareness Certificate from ChurchNext.
You're invited! Take courses through our diocesan Department of Christian Formation ChurchNext subscription. Email: kgraham@dioala.org with Subject Line: CN Courses. Once you complete all five courses, email us with your: Full Name, Parish, City, and we will send your certificate.
You're invited! Take courses through our diocesan Department of Christian Formation ChurchNext subscription. Email: kgraham@dioala.org with Subject Line: CN Courses. Once you complete all five courses, email us with your: Full Name, Parish, City, and we will send your certificate.
White Fragility - Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: by Robin DiAngelo
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’” (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’” (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Teaching Tolerance: Selma Online Project
Using Selma Online, students can explore seven self-paced learning experiences: “Race and Voting Rights,” “Democracy Denied in Dallas County,” “Youth Activism and Voting Rights,” “Who’s Who in Selma,” “Selma’s Pivotal Moments,” “Presidential Support” and “The Right to Vote.”
More from Teaching Tolerance: Explore & teach on topics like Race & Ethnicity, Religion, Ability, Class, Immigration, Gender & Sexual Identity, Bullying & Bias, and more. Click the link below to explore and learn.
Learn more about sawyerville race relations panel discussions
Join the Sawyerville Panel Discussions or use the discussion videos as a starting point to jump start your own discussions. These panel discussions will be presented over the course of the summer featuring various groups of people discussing race relations. Those panels will bring together the following groups: Click the link button below to access panel video discussions and learn more about Sawyerville Race Relations.
If you would like to ask these groups a specific question in regards to current events involving race, how race affects their respective communities, or race relations in general, you may submit your questions through this online form.
- Sawyerville Summer Camp and Summer Learning interns, adult staff, and coordinators
- Hale County community members
- Sawyerville Summer Camp high school staff and Person2Person high school participants
- Community leaders from outside of Hale County
- Clergy from Hale County and the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
If you would like to ask these groups a specific question in regards to current events involving race, how race affects their respective communities, or race relations in general, you may submit your questions through this online form.
Anti-Racism Curated Resource List - The document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
List below includes: Articles, Videos, Podcasts, Books to read, Film & Television series to watch, and organizations you might want to follow.
List below includes: Articles, Videos, Podcasts, Books to read, Film & Television series to watch, and organizations you might want to follow.