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Anti-Racism: Adults: Small Groups/Study Guides

books, videos, online resources for individual and group study/discussion on racism, antiracism and white supremacy culture

Books

Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White People Talk Faithfully about Racism, Second Edition     Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist          Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change     Picture of Disciples of White Jesus     Fat Church | Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation (Kidd)     Healing Haunted Histories          How the Word Is Passed     How to Have Antiracist Conversations by Roxy Manning     Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and  Fractured a Nation: Kobes Du Mez, Kristin: 9781631495731: Amazon.com: Books                    Picture of Not Forsaken          0664266703                    Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers     

How the Word Is Passed

Discussion questions are available here.

Multimedia / Curriculum

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. Email: ministrylab@uccmn.org - for access.

 

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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. 

View the guide here.

 

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Honor God's DiversityHonor 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).

 

 

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Video, DVDs & Guides

R-Squared

What Is Critical Race Theory and What Christians Should Know

includes:

  • GCORR REAL TALK video to learn more about Critical Race Theory

  • Critical Race Theory Infographic Series download

  • Christian Voices on Critical Race Theory
  • More Christian Perspectives (additional resources)
  • How White Christians Can Learn from Critical Race Theory

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Reason to Have Hope: A Public Health Response to Racism — a multi-part, online, interactive, and highly adaptable course created by the UCC's CHHSM — is now online. The innovative, user-friendly curriculum is geared for a group learning environment, and includes history, current events, theology, stories of resilience, and the intersections of race and social issues to help members of faith-based organizations and local churches learn from not only the material, but each other.

 

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White Savior: Racism in the American Church DVD

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Strange Fruit (Small Group Download) from SALT

 

 

 

 

 

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Dialogues On: Race

A small group series to explore race and the church.

 

 

 

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22 Race-Related Films That Will Make You Laugh, Cry, and Think Differently

BY Zenobia Jeffries Warfield

Research has shown that certain movies have caused social justice change, or simply inspired good things to happen.

 

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Blogs, Podcasts & Articles

Wakanda Forever” offers a beautiful and unsatisfying story

The new “Black Panther” movie tells the stories of grief and White supremacy without offering easy answers. The result was a story that was real and sometimes unsettling, writes Brooke Scott. (This article includes discussion questions.)

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Padraig O Tuama reads Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi's poem, Say My Name and discusses it's ramifications for personal history, identity, belonging and awareness - and the many ways these can be stripped by people who dismiss or mispronounce other's names.

 

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Speakers, Webinars, & Training

CONVERGENCE offers two webinars on-demand:

  • White Too Long: A Webinar with Robert Jones from the Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology

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SURJ is a volunteer-led organization that provides online resources as well as trained speakers for group learning. Their online material is appropriate for youth through adults.

 

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RACIAL EQUITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY from Minnesota Compass is a listing of racial equity programs and training providers serving workplaces, civic organizations, educational institutions, faith communities, and anyone working to combat racism and increase cultural competence.

 

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LeaderWise offers:

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In Our Library

The Antiracist Heart by Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton          Product cover image for the Paperback of Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Monique Gray Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Nicole Neidhardt with sell price $17.99.          How to Have Antiracist Conversations by Roxy Manning