Daily Reflection
St. John's Church, Lafayette Square
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Dear St. John's Community,
I am inviting you to an info session this Sunday for a new opportunity we'll unveil this Fall called "Sacred Ground."
After our well attended community conversations on racial healing earlier this summer, we decided to embark on this program as a way to help our entire community go deeper.
This will be a year-long journey, consisting of small dialogue circles that will gather once a month. Sacred Ground was designed by the Episcopal Church, and our own planning team is adapting and updating it to our context at St. John's.
The program will start in September and is open to any interested adult member of
St. John’s. The Rev. Will Morris, with members of the planning group, is hosting this introductory meeting to share more about it and answer questions at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 23 (in place of the coffee hour).
Please click here to register, and you will receive a link to attend. I hope you will join us!
God's peace,
Rob+
A little more about Sacred Ground
- 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.
- Sacred Ground is part of Becoming Beloved Community, The Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society.
- Sacred Ground is a sensitive, prayerful resource that creates space for difficult but respectful and transformative dialogue on race and racism.
- It invites participants to walk back through history in order to peel away the layers that brought us to today, reflecting on family histories and stories, as well as important narratives that shape the collective American story.
- It holds as a guiding star the vision of beloved community – where all people are honored and protected and nurtured as beloved children of God, where we weep at one another’s pain and seek one another’s flourishing.
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The Forum will be on Zoom, and will run 11:00-11:45am. Mark Morial leads the nation’s largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization, and he is former mayor (1994-2002) of New Orleans. Following the discussion, there will be opportunity for Q&A. |
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You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for the meeting.
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St. John's Church, Lafayette Square
1525 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-8766
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