Racial Healing Formation Resources

Racial Healing Commission - Suggested Reading Lists - Adults

To download the full suggested reading list for all ages, please click the button below: Racial Healing Commission Suggested Reading List Nonfiction: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Edd...

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Racial Healing Commission - Suggested Reading List for Children & Youth

Children: Children of God Storybook Bible by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks by Carole Boston Weatherford A Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Boston Weatherford All Different a...

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The Anatomy of a Christian: A Zine on Privilege and Solidarity

The SALT project has put together this "zine" (you can read more abut what that is in the link) to engage families, friends, neighbors and communities in the work of seeking God's justice by examining how privilege, prejudice, and inequality unde...

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Deep Blue Life: Faith and Culture - Anti-Racism

Deep Blue Life is a Methodist curriculum for children published by Cokesbury. The three Faith and Culture - Anti-Racism lessons are available for free download. The three lesson topics are: • Prejudice and Stereotypes • Curiosity...

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Cultivating Culture Change: Tips and Resources for Antiracist Christian Formation - Webinar

From Building Faith's webinar description "Being antiracist requires more than hosting the periodic book club. Both as individuals and faith communities we can make changes to our practices to become more faithful witnesses to God’s love on e...

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Winter 2021 Formation Update

We are not the first and will not likely be the last to live through unprecedented times. How we choose to live in and through them will determine how our world moves forward. God calls us to honor the beauty of every person we encounter. The...

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Early Summer 2020 Formation Update

This issue of the Formation Update newsletter offers a selection of racial justice resources. We are working on ways for young people and young adults around the diocese to engage in this important work as a community. As we seek to make ...

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Bishop Skirving's Pastoral Letter on the Ministry of Reconciliation

To the people of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, Greetings in the name of our risen Lord Jesus Christ! Yesterday morning, it being Earth Day, my morning contemplation focused on the beauty of God’s creation and I found myself...

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Books:

• Booklist for All Ages by the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Anti-Racist Resource list for Students and Families
• Baptized in the Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Charles Reagan Wilson)
• Backlash (George Yancy)
• A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (LeRae Sikes Umfleet)
• Slaves in the Family (Edward Ball)
• The Half Has Never Been Told (Edward Baptist)
• I'm Still Here (Austin Channing Brown)
• Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
• The Sun Does Shine (Anthony Ray Hinton)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
• Blood Done Sign My Name (Timothy B. Tyson)
• Biased (Jennifer Eberhardt)
• White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
• The Person You Mean to Be (Dolly Chugh) - A podcast episode summarizing her work can be found here.
• How the Irish Became White (Noah Ignatiev)
• Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) - A recent podcast episode of On Being where this book was summarized can be found here.
• Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People (Church Publishing)
• Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? A Board Book (Brightly)
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Caldecott Honor)
• Portraits of African-American Heroes (Tonya Bolden)
• Faces: A Love Story (Roger Hutchison)

Websites, Museums, Documentaries, & Podcasts:

• New York Times 1619 Project
• Traces of the Trade (Katrina Brown)
• Remember the Titans (about Martin County, NC)
• Best of Enemies (about Durham, NC)
• TED Talk by Angelica Dass on skin color
• Tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
• Wilmington on Fire
• Lynching.web.unc.edu
• Financial Literacy in the Black Community
• CodeSwitch Podcast and Blog

Resources for Talking to Children and Young People about Race and Racism:

• Talking With Our Children About Race (Wendy Claire Barrie)
• Teaching Tips on Race and Racism (Building Faith)
• Processing Racialized Violence with Middle and High School Students (Fuller Youth Institute)
• How to Talk to Kids about Racism, Protests, and Police (Today Show Parents)
• Embrace Race: Raising a Braver Generation Together

Worship Resources:

• An Interfaith Litany Against Violence (Building Faith)
• Prayers for Racial Reconciliation and Justice (Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music for the Episcopal Church)

Adult Curriculum and Resources:

• Sacred Ground (The Episcopal Church)
• Series on Social Justice (Church Next)
• Racial Reconciliation Resources (The Episcopal Church)
• Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
• Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of An American Pilgrimage (Pauli Murray)
• Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing
• God's Gonna Trouble the Water: Freedom's Call and Response in African American Spirituals (Past Event from The National Cathedral)
• Breath Prayers for Anxious Times (Sarah Bessey)

Children's Resources:

• Godly Play Less to Celebrate MLK Jr's Feast day in April (Wendy Claire Barrie)
• Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? A Board Book (Brightly)
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Caldecott Honor)
• Peace Dove Craft (Create In Honor of Peaceful Protest)
• Portraits of African-American Heroes (Tonya Bolden)
• Patchwork Quilts (Map to Freedom Craft Idea)
• Lift Every Voice and Sing (Baylor University Vocal Performance, with the same name as two Episcopal Hymnals)
• Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People (Church Publishing)
• Absalom Jones: America's First Black Priest (Morehouse Publishing)

Youth Resources:

• Diversity Curriculum (Episcopal Curriculum for Youth)
• Peace Curriculum (Episcopal Curriculum for Youth)
• Race & Racism Series (Ministry to Youth)
• MARCH: A Graphic Novel (Congressman John Lewis)
• Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation on an Alabama Bus (Radio Diaries)
• Instagram Story Prayer Stations (Activity Idea, can create around racial healing and social justice)
• The 1963 March on Washington (SALT Project Video)