Formation and Learning
General Resources and Organizations
A Selection of Episcopal and Related Antiracism Trainings (English and Spanish)
Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing
An Episcopal center providing programs and resources to promote racial healing and justice
Becoming Beloved Community
A comprehensive vision and set of resources for Episcopalians working toward racial healing, reconciliation and justice
Becoming Beloved Community: Advent and Lent Curricula
Center for Racial Justice in Education
Resources for talking about race, racism and racialized violence with kids
Sacred Ground
A film- and readings-based dialogue series on race and faith, created by the church’s Racial Reconciliation and Justice Team
Films and Podcasts
Deeper Dive: A Sacred Ground Supplemental Reading and Film Guide
A newly curated list of books, articles, films and resources to support learning and action around racism and its effects on White, Black, Indigenous, Asiamerican and Latino communities
TED Talk: How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
TED Talk: How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them
Vernā Myers at TEDxBeaconStreet
TED Talk: How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and Others for Prison
Alice Goffman at TED2015
TED Talk: Let’s get to the root of racial injustice
Megan Ming Francis at TEDxRainier
TED Talk: The urgency of intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw at TEDWomen
The 1619 Podcast by The New York Times
NYT Podcast that coincides with their 1619 Project, which examines the legacy of slavery in the US.
Traces of the Trade
Filmmaker Katrina Browne’s journey to explore her slave-trading family’s past and new perspectives on the race in America
Books and Articles
A Deeper Dive: A Sacred Ground Supplemental Reading and Film Guide
A newly curated list of books, articles, films and resources to support learning and action around racism and its effects on White, Black, Indigenous, Asiamerican and Latino communities
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Book: Jim Wallis
Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice
Book: Tammerie Day
Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives
Book: Howard J. Ross
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism
Book: Derrick Bell
Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices
Articles: Special issue on racial justice and reconciliation
How to Be an Antiracist
Book: Ibram X. Kendi
How to Talk to Children about Race
Articles: Kids and Race
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Book and film: Bryan Stevenson
Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America
Book: edited by Catherine Meeks
Race: A Theological Account
Book: J. Kameron Carter
Racial Justice & Reconciliation
Articles: Episcopal News Service articles related to race and racism
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Book: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
Book: Kelly Brown Douglas
Speaking of Freedom
A Letter to the Church from Kelly Brown Douglas, Stephanie Spellers and Winnie Varghese
The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline and New Hope for Beloved Community
Book: Stephanie Spellers
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Book: Robin DiAngelo
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Book: Nancy Isenberg
