The Baltimore-Washington Conference has created strategic resources to support people and churches in their continual efforts to promote awareness, speak out against hate, and call for justice now because every life is sacred, worthy, equal, and...
Feature Movies Emanuel: The Untold Story. On June 17, 2015, churchgoers were gunned down during prayer service in Charleston, South Carolina by a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
webinars/town hall meetings On July 1, 2020, The United Methodist Church held a conversation in our Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom series. Many are wrestling with how we can most faithfully understand and interpret the...
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B Dubois White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda McNeil I’m Still Here: Black Dignity...
UM Council of Bishops We recognize racism as a sin. We commit to challenging unjust systems of power and access. We will work for equal and equitable opportunities in employment and promotion, education and training; in voting, access to...
In our liturgy, we come together to repent, lament, give thanks and glorify God as, a people of faith, we address racial justice. services/order of worship UMW Resources for Racial Justice, which include a section on worship Anti-racism...
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. And justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Why is the church talking about racial justice? United Methodist Social Principles and...
In addition to the fact that white people and people of color have different resourcing needs, there are generational and developmental differences that come into play when seeking to create an anti-racist world. White people have a lot of work...
A collection of resources to help you and your congregation take the first steps towards racial justice.
Presenter: Rev. Daryl Williams Senior Pastor, St Paul UMC, Oxon Hill, MD The question that is plaguing ministry leaders across the nations is, "What do we do now?" COVID-19 simultaneously made our ministries all the more essential and changed...
