Racial Equity
Monthly Prayer Petition | December 2023
God of justice, in your wisdom you create all people in your image, without exception. This Advent help us to open our eyes to see the dignity, beauty, and worth…
Read MoreSeven Last Words: Strange Fruit Speaks
This Holy Week the Racial Equity Team invites you to engage in a new way of experiencing the cross. Modeled after the “Seven Last Words of Jesus” traditionally preached on…
Read MoreCommemorations List: Lamentations, Celebrations & Education
The Commemorations List that follows is offered as a resource in our ongoing work as a Church and as a nation. The Racial Equity team of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C.…
Read MoreCommemoration of Emanuel 9 Massacre | June 17
The Metro D.C. Synod Racial Equity Team invites you to pause on June 17, 2021, at 7:00 PM (EST) as we commemorate the 6th anniversary of the massacre of the…
Read MoreA Plan for Racial Justice in the Metro D.C. Synod of the ELCA
Preamble The Metro DC Synod Council issued a letter on October 7, 2020, that called on the synod and its congregations to dismantle white supremacy within the church and society-at-large. …
Read MoreReflection by Adam Fairchild
I read My Grandmother’s Hands with our synod staff throughout this Fall after spending much of the summer learning about antiracism and how I can embrace a mindset and collection…
Read MoreReflection by Katharyn Wheeler
I read My Grandmother’s Hands following reading White Fragility as a congregational book discussion. While both books are blunt about the need for starting within oneself to start the work…
Read MoreReflection by Katie Evans
I am really thankful to be in a work environment where a pursuit of knowledge and growth is valued in such a way. We had difficult and vulnerable conversations that…
Read MoreReflection by Pastor Erin Swenson-Reinhold
Over three months, the synod staff committed with one another to wrestle through and with the book, My Grandmother’s Hands. As a white woman, I was challenged to face my…
Read MoreReflection by Pastor Lamar Bailey
Author Resmaa Menakem in My Grandmother’s Hands boldly writes, “Race is a myth, but a myth with teeth and claws. Institutions, structures, beliefs, and narratives have been created around it.…
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