Before beginning your antiracism journey, spend time in prayer.
Let me not look away, O God, from any truth I should see. Even if it is difficult, let me face the reality in which I live. I do not want to live inside a cosseted dream, imagining I am the one who is always right, or believing only what I want to hear. Help me to see the world through other eyes, to listen to voices distant and different, to educate myself to the feelings of those with whom I think I have nothing in common. Break the shell of my indifference. Draw me out of my prejudices and show me your wide variety. Let me not look away.
—The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, Choctaw
We encourage you to use this site as a guide to programs, books, experiences, and activities in small or large groups. Your partners will provide support and insight. If you choose to journey as an individual, journal your experiences and share with others.
As you move along your antiracism journey, remember that everything you read, discuss, and experience through the Beloved Journey is within a safe space. Be aware of your feelings, and the feelings of others. You may experience anger, sadness, guilt, shame, or any number of negative emotions.
Give yourself a moment to experience the feelings, process the feelings, let yourself have the feelings, and most importantly, be honest about what those feelings are.
—Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
This is a journey of healing and discovery where you will learn the ways in which you can honor Christ’s commandment to love our neighbors and embody the Beloved Community.
Be open to learning.
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man began in 2020 as a social media post and became a movement. In his first video, Emmanuel Acho discusses why he began this series.
Video provided courtesy of YouTube.
Listen with the words of
Christ in your heart.
Baratunde Thurston speaking at TED2019. Thurston is an author, Emmy-nominated writer, activist, and comedian.
Video provided courtesy of TED.
Challenge what you
think you know.
Robin DiAngelo is an educator, facilitator, and author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.
Video provided courtesy of YouTube.
Journey with love.
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu