Becoming Beloved Community
Becoming Beloved Community represents not so much a set of programs as a journey, a set of interrelated commitments around which Episcopalians may organize our many efforts to respond to racial injustice and grow a community of reconcilers, justice-makers, and healers. The labyrinth may be an even more useful image for engaging the vision. On the road toward reconciliation and healing, we move around corners and double back into quadrants we have visited before, each time discovering new revelation and challenge.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry offers a message on the church’s work for racial healing
What can I do?
This is the question Ryan Whitley, Rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Dr. Valerie Cooper, Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, explore together.
Sacred Ground is now meeting through Zoom.
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Sacred Ground: A Film-Based Dialogue Series on Race and Faith
The 10-part series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories.
Local Resources and Events
The African American Heritage Trails in St. Petersburg
The African American Heritage Trails in St. Petersburg, Florida, are walking tours of downtown neighborhoods. They provide individuals, groups, and classes with an overview of African American influence on the history of the city. Nineteen markers covering more than a dozen city blocks provide details about the history of the African American community in St. Petersburg.
Dr. G. Carter Woodson African American Museum
The museum presents the historic voice of one segment of the St. Petersburg Florida community in the perspective of local, regional, and national history, culture and community. It is another demonstration of the commitment to revitalize the Midtown St. Petersburg area.
Venice Interfaith Community Association Winter Series
Join the Venice Interfaith Community Association for the 2020 Winter Series, American Racism: Yours, Mine and Ours Part II", which delves deeper into institutional racism and what can be done about it. The series will be held at Emmanual Lutheran Church, 790 S Tamiani Trail, Venice, on Mondays at 7:00 pm.
The Union of Black Episcopalians
The Union of Black Episcopalians stands in the continuing tradition of more than 200 years of Black leadership in the Episcopal Church. The Union of Black Episcopalians is a confederation of more than 55 chapters and interest groups throughout the continental United States and the Caribbean. The Union also has members in Canada, Africa and Latin America.
The NAACP
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
