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Event Series:
Sacred Ground: A Film-based Dialogue on Race and Faith
Sacred Ground: A Film-based Dialogue on Race and Faith
October 12, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
6 Tuesdays – September 14 and 28 – October 12 and 26 – November 9 and 23
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Via Zoom
The Retreat House, in collaboration with Holy Trinity Oxford, invites you to join us in Sacred Ground, a curriculum that is part of the
Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society. The core of this series is the vision of beloved community – where all people are honored and protected and nurtured as beloved children of God.
Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society. The core of this series is the vision of beloved community – where all people are honored and protected and nurtured as beloved children of God.This opportunity invites us to read, watch and learn about the history of race and racism in America, while grounded in our call to faith, hope, and love. We will explore together this online curriculum, a sensitive, prayerful resource that creates space for respectful and transformative dialogue. Our focus will be on Indigenous, Black, Latino and Asian/Pacific American peoples as their histories’ intersect with European American history, and the impact of all of it on our world today.
We will watch documentaries and read articles to help inform us before gathering for conversation on six Tuesday afternoons via Zoom. Learning together can help us peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day and reveal the origins of the inequities that are deeply embedded in our communities today.
The Episcopal Church and Katrina Browne (the director of the documentary Traces of the Trade) have developed this rich series as part of The Episcopal Church’s Becoming Beloved Community which is its long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation and justice.
A suggested donation of $75 is requested but all are welcome regardless of payment amount. Register here.
Why Sacred Ground? This National Church anti-racism program is sacred ground because we walk into painful history, our society’s and our own, accompanied by God and by each other. It is more than reading the books or watching the documentaries that are its “course material,” life-changing though those may be. This is spiritual formation. We do the exploring work rooted in our spiritual life and expect to be changed in the work.
Once you register, we will send you the Zoom meeting link.
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