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What are the steps to becoming a fully Anti-Racist Church?
Awareness
We must counteract our patterns of unawareness of: Oppression, Violence, Exclusion, Fear of the other

Self-Examination
We go through life unaware that the effects of our actions and of the actions of our institutions perpetuate misery, oppression and continue the marginalization of poor people, people of color, gays and lesbians, and women and children.

Structural Analysis
Examine those structures and institutions that keep us separated and deny equal access and opportunity

Systemic Change

  • We must develop a Vision of what we hope to become 
  • Eliminate all of our exclusionary practices and policies
  • Develop Strategies to Overcome the forces that divide us