Given the troubling times in which we live, Colin Watson, Executive Director of the CRCNA, would like to invite all church leaders to fully participate in upcoming opportunities for conversation about racism, race relations, and justice.
Listed below are some links to upcoming seminars, trainings, podcasts and other resources. It is our hope that if leaders engage in dialogue about these things together, we can shepherd our congregations and the process of reconciliation can begin.
Upcoming Webinars and Workshops
Visit www.crcna.org/race/workshops to find and schedule a workshop for your congregation
Save the date! "White Work 2.0" a webinar hosted by Race Relations on June 25 from 12-1:30pm EDT
Congregations Organizing for Racial Reconciliation (CORR) - virtual workshops in August/Sept and Dec 2021
The Ideology of Whiteness asynchronous learning (this online course can be done on your own, anytime)
Prayers and Worship Materials
Weekly Justice Prayers (Office of Social Justice)
Worship Resources about Racism (Race Relations)
Books:
- How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby (2021)
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby (2020)
- Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley (2020)
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah (2019)
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2019)
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (2017)
- Beyond Colorblind by Sarah Shin (2017)
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (2017)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
- God’s Diverse and Unified Family pdf files from CRCNA (2001)
Movies:
- Just Mercy (2019) PG-13 Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx
- Green Book (2018) PG-13 Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
- The Hate U Give (2018) PG-13 Amandla Stenberg
- Selma (2015) PG-13 David Oyelowo, Oprah
- 42 (2013) PG-13 Chadwick Boseman
Libraries of Resources
The Resources page on the Race Relations website
The Resources page on the Office of Social Justice website
Social Media Pages
Office of Social Justice Facebook page
Podcasts
The Antioch podcast - weekly recorded conversations among a multiracial team of Christian antiracism educators and friends
