+Friday, Sept 18, 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM,
Traces of the Trade at the Missouri History Museum.
View the film and discuss with the filmmaker, Katrina Browne
+Saturday, Sept 19, 8:30 AM, Repairing the Breach: The Episcopal Church and Slavery Atonement at Holy Communion. View the film and discuss with Katrina Browne
+[cancelled] Fri-Sat, Oct. 2-3, Dismantling Racism training has been rescheduled to March 12-13, 2010 and will be held at Columbia Hope Episcopal Church, Columbia, MO. Contact Cory Hoehn, choehn@diocesemo.org for more information or to register.
+Fri-Sat, Oct. 16-17, Training the Trainer session with the Rev Jayne J. Oasin, Program Officer for Anti-Racism & Gender Equality, Episcopal Church Center. Registration using this form.
At last month’s General Convention, we again affirmed our commitment to dismantling racism with these resolutions: A142, To Recommit to being anti-racists for the next three triennia; A143, which extends a 2006 resolution which encourages each diocese to continue over the next six years the gathering of local information on the complicity of The Episcopal Church in the institution of slavery and in the subsequent history of segregation and discrimination.”
Therefore, we want to pledge ourselves to continue to name and shine the light of Christ on all of those places where racism and other forms of oppression still exist and to hold ourselves and our sisters and brothers in Christ and all of the faith and secular communities accountable for our individual, collective, and institutional acts of both courage and cowardice, acknowledging that our faintheartedness and our refusal to confront evil and, wherever and whenever it exists, denigrates our professed love for Jesus and the imperative of the Gospel (A142).
This fall, we again have the opportunity to continue the conversation with events and trainings sponsored by the diocesan Dismantling Racism Commission.
In addition to the showings and filmmaker led discussions of Traces of the Trade, Katrina Browne will again be our guest on Saturday, September 19th at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, 7401 Delmar Blvd at Jackson Avenue in University City. We’ll show the film Repairing the Breach: The Episcopal Church and Slavery Atonement. This new, short film gives an overview of the Episcopal Church’s complicity in slavery, and shows the Church’s process of seeking to come to terms with that history at our 2006 General Convention and 2008 National Service of Repentance. Narrated by the Rev. Canon Edward Rodman, it includes many inspiring leadership voices. Following the film, Katrina Browne will facilitate a conversation with participants about how we can begin the process of dismantling racism in our own community, and move toward reconciliation.
- Holy Communion Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, 7401 Delmar Blvd, University City MO 63130, ph 314-721-7401, www.holycommunion.net
- Hope-Columbia Columbia Hope Episcopal Church, 4603 John Garry Drive, Suites #5-6 Columbia MO 65203, ph. 573-449-1178, columbiahopechurch.org
