Joe Davis and David Scherer together are JUSTmove which offers anti-racism performances, retreats, courses, and consulting for individuals and congregations.
Please read Scherer's article: Why Shame Is Not Effective
See their To My Beloved Children video - appropriate for all ages.
ANTIRACISM AS A WAY OF BEINGThis accompanied course is for those moving from programs and studies to disrupting systems and transforming the world around them.
Antiracism as a Way of Being is a six-module video series developed for NEXT Church by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training. Each module contains multiple short videos (5-10 minutes) along with supplemental materials and reflection questions. Each module takes about an hour.
Materials include:
Learn more and register here.
Register/engage as single person or group.
How to Be An Anti-Racist Church
Check out this free guide from Gravity Leadership with resources and links to help you and your congregation learn and grow.
National Museum of African American History & Culture / The Smithsonian: TALKING ABOUT RACE
6-session Bible study/discussion series for congregations
short "conversation seeds" videos to accompany each session will be linked in each study session by Feb 14, 2024
Short devotionals for Leaders (Sessions, PTCA committees, staff meetings, etc.) PREVIEW here
Worship Resources PREVIEW here
The UMC's Discipleship Ministries has compiled resources from the General Commission on Race and Religion and the General Board of Church and Society and offer How to Have a Courageous Conversation: Racism: Understanding the Connection of Anti-Racism to Discipleship, which builds on the Courageous Conversation Teaching Course, with which users should be familiar. Download the free pdf here.
Honor God’s Diversity - God calls us to honor diversity that God has created in our world by diving deep beyond just accepting diversity. When we recognize and celebrate the different gifts, abilities, and voices in all creation, we honor the diversity in the world God has created.
With age-specific and intergenerational/full congregation curriculum available (click here and scroll down).
Standing Against Racism 6-week video series & Dismantling Racism: Asian American Pacific Islander video
Find books, curricula, prayer, music, and worship elements (including a full sermon), and community organizations and businesses grouped to help congregations take next steps in antiracism work, creation care, and addressing intergenerational mental health and well-being in the WaterThreads - Woven Together: Water, Community, Well-Being. Available online and via requested download for member congregations - who should email: ministrylab@unitedseminary.edu - for access.
Disparity Trap: The Socially Conscious Board Game provides an easy way to have the hard conversations around race & privilege in America and how they impact society in systemically dominant (SD) and systemically non-dominant (SND) ways. The game play is like many of its kind, where your individual goal is to accrue as much wealth as possible. But where it differs is that you can have a team goal as well where you work with your fellow players to dismantle the Disparity Traps seeking to keep everyone in poverty. Within this game you also step into someone else’s shoes; to experience the disparities within an identity different from your own. Throughout the game, the dice roll correlates your identity in the game to real life statistics.
So like life, the dice are in your hands, but the odds are not.
15 characteristics of white supremacy culture and proposed antidotes: excellent for group study
Wheel of Privilege and Power from Canada and Culture and Power Differentials from The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics (K.M. Pauly, 1996) offer two intersectionality wheels.
African American Policy Forum short film: The Unequal Opportunity Race
The AntiRacist Table's 30 Day Challenge includes prompts to bring "mindful anti-racist practice into daily life".
Expanding the Table for Racial Equity
Two six-video sessions with diverse leaders covering a range of topics. Appropriate for tweens, teens and adults.
