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.
Pray
Responding to Racist Violence
In this time of national upheaval, outrage, and fear, The Episcopal Church’s Department of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care and the Office of Government Relations have assembled resources to assist individuals, congregations and communities seeking to LEARN, PRAY and ACT.
Read Presiding Bishop Curry’s Word to the Church: When the Cameras are Gone, We Will Still Be Here
Minnesota’s Bishop-Elect and Bishop's statement on the killing of George Floyd and set of initial recommendations
Resources for Individuals & Congregations
Becoming Beloved Community…Where You Are was created by the Episcopal Church. This document provides detail about the four commitments as well as books, articles, and reflections on how to further examine racial healing and injustice in your community.
We acknowledge this is hard work.
We are asking ourselves and each other to reexamine stories and truths that are deeply held. We also acknowledge that we are called by God and our baptismal vows to do this work. We approach this work with a sense of curiosity and understanding that we don’t have all the answers and are sometimes limited by own own life experiences. Below are links to books, articles, films, and online resources to help us learn and reflect as preparation for wider discussion.