Racial Justice in the Episcopal Church

The Becoming Beloved Community vision was presented by the National Church’s key leaders in May 2017 and has been continually revisited since. It is a practical and theological framework guiding Episcopalians into racial healing, justice and reconciliation. It is a positive and biblically based ideal – a dream toward which we strive. It is the end toward which the Jesus Movement points.

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Sacred Ground is a film and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith.  Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity.

The 11-part series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories.

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At St Charles Church we have hosted 3 Sacred Ground circles (group). They were just the first steps in becoming better informed about racism in our country’s and church’s history. After reflectively discerning, the people involved in those circles are now working on taking action and inviting our entire community to join us. We are committed to continuing to learn, but also to building partnerships, identifying needs, and growing our advocacy right here in the Fox Valley.

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