LibGuides: Resources for Anti-racism study: Church-based Programs and Information

Introduction

Racism in the United States exists on the personal and institutional level, therefore, helping our institutions, especially the church, recognize and address this racism is important. Below are resources coming from communities of faith as they go on their own journeys of anti-racism.

Race Relations: Resourcing Your Congregation as You Dismantle Racism (CRCNA)
Reinforcing that “To be in Christ is to be reconciled with one another as a community of racially and ethnically diverse people of God,” for over fifty years the office of "Race Relations has resourced Christian Reformed members and congregations as you dismantle the causes and effects of racism within the body of believers and throughout the world."
Dismantling Racism in the RCA
Committed to working toward a multiracial and multicultural future freed from racism, dismantling racism is central to one of the RCA’s doctrinal Standards, the Belhar Confession. Believe racism is sinful, we are actively working to uncover and dismantle racism in ourselves and the systems we’re part of.
Sacred Conversations To End Racism (UCC)
Sacred Conversations to End Racism (SC2ER) is a Restorative Racial Justice Journey curriculum created to address and dismantle racism within the Christian Church and society. The study guide and resources offer lessons to dispel myths of white skin and dominant culture supremacy.
How to have helpful conversations about race in the church (ELCA)
"We know some of the hazards of having conversations about race. We know far too many conversations about race fail to be helpful...The cornerstone of a conversation about race is who we are and whose we are. We gather as community before a forgiving and loving God. As a church, we have made certain commitments of faith to God and with each other. It is within such commitments and such graces that we are able to have helpful conversations about race."
Church of the Servant (CRCNA) Anti-racism Resources
The Church of the Servant Antiracism and Reconciliation Team maintains a list of curated resources to help their congregation understand and engage in the work of becoming an antiracist church.
Anti-Racism Resources for White-Majority Churches
"Faith communities have a vital role in cultural transformation. Churches are a source for many of us to discern God’s hopes for humanity, to align our desire with God’s, and to reorient ourselves towards the pursuit of that vision."
Communities Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE) - Grand Rapids
"Communities Organizing for Racial Equity exists to empower and equip churches and other Christian organizations in west Michigan to organize and disciple their members to be agents for life-long biblical racial justice."