What Can We Do?
- Educate our children
- Donate
- Petition
- Engage (this link contains information and registration for the 2020 Intercultural Transformation Workshops brought to you in part by the Presbyterian Mission Agency)
And much more:
Take action by doing at least one from the following:
More Books, Podcasts, TV & Movies:
From the author of Waking Up White — recommended resources from Debby Irving:
Whiteness and Racism Resources from ConvergenceUS.org
A sermon from Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, President and Executive Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency
Other Resources:
Representation Matters: Consider these images for your bulletin covers. Or do an education time with your people on how they respond to these images.
Also have them read this article.
Work through “Uncomfortable Truths”: a five-session study created by Rev. Maxwell Grant.
Meditate on this sermon by Rev. Glenn Kennedy, 2020 Moderator for the Presbytery of Geneva.
Submitted by Rev. Bruce Incze:
“I think one of the great challenges of our time is finding ways of communicating with one another in a way that is hearable. I am saddened when I find so many of our PC(USA) race relations products are crafted for the already woke. Language that is used is often inaccessible to those encountering it for the first time and often seems oriented to shaming those who do not agree. Whether or not that is the motivation, it is the sense of it to many.
I wish to help address the communication gap as I see it. I did a video interview with one of my friends of color. The idea was to capture that people of color experience our community differently from the way the white majority experiences it. Based on the feedback that I have received, I think this video interview managed to be both viewable and deeply touching to many. Many of my congregation know and like the person I interviewed and her story made them really sad. My daughter does not know the person I interviewed. My daughter said she bawled when she watched video and that set up a conversation with her children 6 and 3 on the topic of racism. [The video is not technical or steeped in social science; it is personal.] To view it, click here.
It seems that this video might even support having a group discussion amongst folks of different outlooks. Why? Because it is a story and does not make any conclusions. As Marseena said, “It is what it is.””