Join us weekly to discuss, study, and examine how we might better love our neighbor. Discussions kickoff July 29 and 30 for 4 weeks. Read more here about the challenge.
21-Day Racial Justice Challenge: July 29 – August 20
Register here for Wednesday evening ZOOM group: July 29 – August 19 at 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Register here for Thursday evening in-person group: July 30 – August 20 at 7:45 – 8:45 p.m.
You are invited to record your feelings, insights and reflections as you engage in the 21-Day Racial Justice Challenge. You may copy and use the document linked below for journaling in whatever way works best for you:
Reflection Tool for 21-Day Racial Justice Challenge
| Day | Resource | Time |
| 1 | Read 21-Day Racial Justice Challenge — America & Moore – describes the 21-day challenge A Statement from the Special Committee on Racism Truth and Reconciliation, PCUSA, June 25, 2020 A Pastoral Letter for Such a Time as This by Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber June 5, 2020 | 15 min |
| 2 | Study Week One lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide. | 20-30 min |
| 3 | Watch the TED Talk How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them by Verna Myers | 18 min |
| 4 | Read “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh. It is believed that the term white privilege was coined by black civil rights activist William Du Bois in the 1930s. The term gained widespread use after anti-racism activist and writer Peggy McIntosh published this essay in 1989. | 15 min |
| 5 | Study Week Two lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide | 20-30 min |
| 6 | Read Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person | 10 min |
| 7 | Participate in Project Implicit – Complete Race IAT and/or Skin Tone IAT (IAT is Implicit Association Test)
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15 min |
| 8 | Study Week Three lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide | 20-30 min |
| 9 | Read White, Black, and Blue: Christians Disagree Over Policing Black Christians overwhelmingly say police treatment is biased against them. Why don’t white evangelicals believe them? Christianity Today, June 29, 2020 AND I was a police chief stopped by my own officer Isaiah McKinnon Detroit Free Press Opinion June, 2020 | 15 min |
| 10 | Read Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? By Ibram X. Kendi 5/12/20 | 15 min |
| 11 | Study Week Four lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide | 20-30 min |
| 12 | Watch There is Something in the Water about environmental racism | 3 min |
| 13 | Watch the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s webinar, Impact of Environmental Injustice on Low Income and Communities of Color | 57 min |
| 14 | Read the resolution of the 223rd General Assembly of the PC(USA) on environmental racism | 15 min |
| 15 | Study Week Five lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide | 20-30 min |
| 16 | Watch an updated version of the Clark doll experiment which explores how early-in-life ideas of racial inferiority and superiority are internalized | 5 min |
| 17 | Watch the PBS documentary, Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools | 1 hour |
| 18 | Watch The Disturbing History of the Suburbs | Adam Ruins Everything | 6 min |
| 19 | Study Week Six lesson from the PCUSA Facing Racism Study Guide | 20-30 min |
| 20 | Read How a pandemic brought healing to a centuries-old racial wound from Presbyterians Today July/August 2020 | 10 min |
| 21 | Reflect What have you learned? What are the next steps for you? What are the next steps for our church? |