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
Join us on a journey to build Beloved Community at the Cathedral.
Through prayer and conversation, we have discerned the first steps for this journey at the Cathedral. Our desire is to provide formation experiences to a variety of parishioners. You are invited to join in where you feel called to both do the personal work of unpacking injustice as well as find community in doing the work with others. For more information about these offerings, or if you have questions, contact Canon Paige Hanks.
To find out more about how this group developed at the Cathedral, please read a series of articles written by Betsy Adams about the connection between this work and our baptismal covenant. Read the Becoming Beloved Community Blog here.
Resources for prayer and reflection
Conversations and dialogue series on race
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
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.
