A clarion call and evidence-based reparations plan for churches engaged in dismantling racism.
Christian churches, schools, and organizations committed to a reparations plan can learn how to do it–including how to support local, Black-led organizations working on economic empowerment. This is a much needed resource as churches have acknowledged generations of participation in systemic and structural racism and are looking for specific ways to action responsibility. This engaging book show how these plans are being lived out in congregations across the country.
Written by a white priest called to pastor an historically Black congregation in Washington DC, Reparations: A Plan for Churches provides spiritual resources and practical tools for dioceses, and other institutions, who are poised to seize this crucial moment. By drawing from examples of steps being taken by congregations and others, this guide also centers the counsel, voices, and teaching of Black scholars, activists, and many denominations of Christians. From this vantage, the book shows Christians how to make the work of restitution a reality by honest fact-finding and truth-telling, substantive and sustained engagement with those to whom reparations are owed, clear statements about what reparations are, and focused action to begin the work.
All royalties go to Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, a Black-led abolitionist community defense hub centering all Black lives most at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington area.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Stephanie Spellers Preface Introduction 1. Dreaming Big Dreams The Math of Reparations 2. A Process in Six Stages 3. Building Relationship 4. Truth-Finding 5. Truth-Telling 6. Repentance 7. Reparation 8. Evaluation 9. Forgiveness, Absolution? 10. Resources for Perseverance 11. A Principled Critique Conclusion The Necessity and Insufficiency of Financial Reparations Acknowledgments
Über den Autor
Stephanie Spellers served as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Canon for Evangelism and Reconciliation. The author of The Church Cracked Open, and The Episcopal Way (with Eric Law), she has directed mission and evangelism work at General Theological Seminary and in the Diocese of Long Island. A native of Kentucky and a graduate of both Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, she lives in Harlem, New York.
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