Resources
Resources for All Ages
- Racial Reconciliation & Becoming Beloved Community Resources – The Episcopal Church
- Sacred Ground – A film-based dialogue series on race developed by The Episcopal Church. The film is curated by Katrina Browne, who produced and directed Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, a documentary about tracing her family’s ancestry in the slave trade.
- Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing – Dr. Catherine Meeks, Atlanta, GA
- Addressing Racial Injustice: Equipping Congregations Webinar from BuildingFaith
- Service Never Sleeps
Books for Adults
- Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America – Catherine Meeks, ed.
- My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menachem
- Seeing My Skin – Peter Jarrett-Schell
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla Saad
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
- Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery – Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
- Tell Me the Truth About Racism
- Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion – An Anti-Racist Resource List for Students and Families from St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School, Washington, DC
- ‘Raising White Kids’ Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race – NPR article about white privilege
- “Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race”
- The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
- “Talking with Our Children About Race”
- Embrace Race website
- Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Children’s Book List
Dismantling Racism Youth Curriculum – Diocese of Atlanta
Pilgrimages
Dates of future pilgrimages will be listed here.
Black in Appalachia
In April 2023, a dozen adults from across Southwestern Virginia journeyed many miles to learn about and explore the roots of black history in the Appalachian Mountains. The pilgrimage included visits to three lynching sites, the Dan Fields Cemetery, the Macedonia Baptist Church, the Appalachian African American Cultural Center, and Christ Episcopal Church, Big Stone Gap.
Black in Appalachia Youth Pilgrimage
In April 2022, youth from across the Diocese embarked on a pilgrimage to journey through black history in Appalachia with stops at lynching sites, the Dan Fields Cemetery, and the Appalachian African American Cultural Center.
Pilgrimage for Racial Justice
In the summer of 2019, our Diocese, in collaboration with Virginia Theological Seminary, organized a pilgrimage for racial reconciliation from the tobacco north to the cotton south. We made five stops along the way: Alexandria, Staunton, Roanoke, Radford, and Abingdon.
Gainsboro Pilgrimage
In January 2019, church members from across the Diocese joined Presiding Bishop Michael Curry along with members and leaders of the Roanoke community for a pilgrimage walk through the Gainsboro neighborhood. Participants reflected on what was destroyed by urban renewal as well as the long-term effect it had on residents. The walk concluded at the Dumas Center, where adults who grew up in the Gainsboro neighborhood and lived through urban renewal shared their stories.
Videos
Beloved Community Ministry in Action
This five-part series was developed in 2017 to assist congregations and individuals in beginning to unpack issues of race, racism, and privilege while examining the theological commitments to justice and peace found in scripture and our Anglican tradition.
