Sacred Ground
A Conversation on Race and Faith
Sacred Ground is a film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. The program includes eleven sessions and last ran from January to May 2023. For information about the next session please contact Chester Hines.
Required Reading
Jesus and the Disinherited
Famously Dr. King carried this text from his former professor and Mentor Howard Thurman with him, right next to his Bible. Howard Thurman has been called the “Mystic of the Civil Rights Movement.” This classic work introduces the idea that Jesus identified with those whose “backs are against a wall.”
Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
In Waking Up White, Irving tells her often cringe-worthy story with such openness that readers will turn every page rooting for her-and ultimately for all of us.