Anti-Racism: Adults: Antiracism

Shippensburg University offers this list of excellent books on The Church and Racism.

The MN Annual Conference UMC's Rev. Dana Neuhauser offers this list of Books That Can Build Empathy for BIPOC Communities.

The PC(USA) Store created a list of their Antiracism books for all ages.

• Anti-Racism Resources from Illustrated Ministries 

• Justice in June: Anti-Racism Resources Curated by United Theological Seminary Students Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace 

• PCUSA Store's Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages 

• A Scaffolded List of Anti-Racism Resources from Princeton Seminary Students 

• The Spiritual Work of Overcoming Racism from The Upper Room 

• What Writers of Color Say We Should All Should Read Right Now by The Star Tribune
• Linden Hills UCC's Shifting Our Cultural Awareness about Race includes action and reading lists.
• The UMC's Discipleship Ministries has compiled resources from the General Commission on Race and Religion and the General Board of Church and Society and offer How to Have a Courageous Conversation: Racism: Understanding the Connection of Anti-Racism to Discipleship, which builds on the Courageous Conversation Teaching Course, with which users should be familiar. Download the free pdf here.

New York Public Library curates the regularly updated Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List: explore essential titles selected by the Schomburg Center as it marks 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture. Available on SimplyE and from the Schomburg Shop.

ANTIRACISM AS A WAY OF BEING

This accompanied course is for those moving from programs and studies to disrupting systems and transforming the world around them.

Antiracism as a Way of Being is a six-module video series developed for NEXT Church by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training. Each module contains multiple short videos (5-10 minutes) along with supplemental materials and reflection questions. Each module takes about an hour to work through, on average. It asks the following questions:

• What does antiracism require of you?
• How are different forms of oppression linked?
• What embodied values will transform our institutions and ourselves?
• What makes our lives, our very beings, an act of resistance?

Materials include:

• 6 sessions broken into shorter videos of content and application
• Questions & supplemental materials to process, reflect, and unpack as you go
• Delivered on NEXT Church's e-learning platform - Teachable

Learn more and register here.

Register/engage as single person or group.

Recalibrating Our Spiritual GPS: The PTCA Institutional Race and Equity Self-Assessment and additional Resources for Antiracist Engagement & Transformation including:

• 6-session Bible study/discussion series for congregations 

  • short "conversation seeds" videos to accompany each session will be linked in each study session by Feb 14, 2024

• Short devotionals for Leaders (Sessions, PTCA committees, staff meetings, etc.) PREVIEW here

• Worship Resources PREVIEW here

Come Together for Racial Justice

A monthly, online convening to learn, share, and mobilize

• Looking to build relationships across boundaries?
• Desiring a community centered in BIPOC voices and leadership?
• Want to ground yourself in conversations with others committed to racial justice?

If you answer 'yes' to any (or all) of the above, join CLNE in their monthly Zoom gathering featuring one or more neighborhood-based leaders reflecting on themes like racial healing, leading in diverse contexts, asset-based community development and more. The aim is to create a space for mutual learning and building relationships, being intentional about cultivating trust, welcome, safety, and a sense of belonging.

How to Be An Anti-Racist Church

Check out this free guide from Gravity Leadership with resources and links to help you and your congregation learn and grow. 

View the guide here.

Honor God’s Diversity - God calls us to honor diversity that God has created in our world by diving deep beyond just accepting diversity. When we recognize and celebrate the different gifts, abilities, and voices in all creation, we honor the diversity in the world God has created.

With age-specific and intergenerational/full congregation curriculum available (click here and scroll down).

National Museum of African American History & Culture / The Smithsonian: TALKING ABOUT RACE

Resource Sharing Project's Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book for Social Change Groups

JUSTmove

Joe Davis and David Scherer together are JUSTmove which offers anti-racism performances, retreats, courses, and consulting for individuals and congregations.

Please read Scherer's article: Why Shame Is Not Effective

See their To My Beloved Children video - appropriate for all ages.

Wheel of Privilege and Power from Canada and Culture and Power Differentials from The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics (K.M. Pauly, 1996) offer two intersectionality wheels.

white supremacy culture

by Tema Okun . dRworks . www.dismantlingracism.org

15 characteristics of white supremacy culture and proposed antidotes: excellent for group study

dRworks is a group of trainers, educators and organizers working to build

strong progressive anti-racist organizations and institutions. dRworks can be reached at www.dismantlingracism.org.

Resource Sharing Project's Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book for Social Change Groups

Showing Up for Racial Justice - SURJ

Offers online resources, speakers, trainings, and programming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger reflects on a visit to Auschwitz, urging people to 'do the hard work' and 'conquer their mind', to resist hatred and marginalization of all kinds.

Standing Against Racism 6-week video series & Dismantling Racism: Asian American Pacific Islander video

African American Policy Forum short film: The Unequal Opportunity Race

Racism feeds on denial. Lament moves us to tell the truth. And the truth can set us free.
In Lamenting Racism, leading pastors and theologians invite us into the transformative and motivating practice of biblical lament as a powerful way to confront racism. This six-session study invites church groups to engage in the practice of biblical lament as a powerful tool in the church’s struggle against racism.

The AntiRacist Table's 30 Day Challenge includes prompts to bring "mindful anti-racist practice into daily life".

Expanding the Table for Racial Equity

Two six-video sessions with diverse leaders covering a range of topics. Appropriate for tweens, teens and adults.

World Trust's Cracking the Codes supports institutions and communities to deepen and shift the framing of racial disparities from our shallow, even harmful focus on individuals, to institutional and structural inequities.

The conversation parents of color have with their children about interactions with police.

How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time: Baratunde Thurston: super good talk on racism, includes "interactive" activity accessible to tweens through adults; uses humor yet remains poignant.

Find books, curricula, prayer, music, and worship elements (including a full sermon), and community organizations and businesses grouped to help congregations take next steps in antiracism work, creation care, and addressing intergenerational mental health and well-being in the WaterThreads - Woven Together: Water, Community, Well-Being. Available online and via requested download for member congregations - who should email: ministrylab@unitedseminary.edu - for access.

Disparity Trap: The Socially Conscious Board Game provides an easy way to have the hard conversations around race & privilege in America and how they impact society in systemically dominant (SD) and systemically non-dominant (SND) ways. The game play is like many of its kind, where your individual goal is to accrue as much wealth as possible. But where it differs is that you can have a team goal as well where you work with  your fellow players to dismantle the Disparity Traps seeking to keep everyone in poverty. Within this game you also step into someone else’s shoes; to experience the disparities within an identity different from your own. Throughout the game, the dice roll correlates your identity in the game to real life statistics.

So like life, the dice are in your hands, but the odds are not.