Racial Equity
How to Start a Racial Equity Group in Your Congregation
Have you or your congregation recently felt called to dedicate some amount of time, energy, and resources to the cause of racial justice?Have you been asking yourself, what does that…
Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr. Day Resources & Events
Worship Resources: Litany for worship (Adapted by the Metro DC Synod Racial Equity Team) From Psalm 82 and Amos 5. A voice: God said; How long will you judge unjustly…
Read MoreMonthly Prayer Petition | January 2024
Holy One, thank you for the gift of your love made real in the child Jesus, and help us root our gratitude in the ongoing gifts of the Epiphany. We…
Read MoreMonthly 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…
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