Proclaiming the Dream: Diocesan Convocation
Saturday, September 25
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Throughout the Revival, there will be opportunities to share stories and connect in our faith. The StorySharing Tent will offer dynamic, fun, and deep ways to practice StorySharing. We will explore the Four Sacred Questions designed by The Episcopal Church, including: What do you love? What have you lost? Where does it hurt? What do you dream?
A StorySharing Showcase will exhibit video, visual, and written stories collected the past year, speaking to who we are, what we are learning, and how we are being changed in our journey to Becoming Beloved Community. Have a personal and/or communal story to share? Contact Amy Howton at ahowton@diosohio.org
The day will be capped off with a tent revival-style Eucharist with guest preacher, the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation Care.
Activities will be mainly outdoors. Masks will be required for any activities inside buildings at Procter.
This event is free! Food will be available for purchase or you can bring your own. Registration is required for planning purposes.
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Friday Circle of Practice |
Beginning Friday, September 10 from 10-11:30am, the weekly Friday Circle returns. The planning team is exciting to welcome all to this sacred way of worship. All are welcome, any time.
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Our weekly advocacy update from August 31. |
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All are welcome, any time! |
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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.
This series is open to all, and especially designed to help white people talk with other white people. Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope and love. Register here.
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Concert for the Human Family
Sunday, September 26, 5:30 pm
The Concert for the Human Family is an inspiring collaboration between award-winning musicians and church leaders who believe in the power of music and storytelling to foster Beloved Community.
Experience genre-bending original music that bridges jazz, hip-hop, and bluegrass, performed by a multicultural team led by Nashville pianist and composer Kory Caudill. The concert is interwoven with sacred stories to launch conversation around reconciliation, healing, and justice in the communities we call home.
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Wednesday, September 22,
6-7 pm
Larry James, co-convener of the Becoming Beloved Community Leadership team for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio is participating in this panel discussion. The panel will take place on Zoom.
Community is a feeling of fellowship with others, as result of sharing common cultures, interests, and goals. Racial healing recognizes the needs to acknowledge and promote the truth about past wrongs based on the social construct of race by persons and systems and address the present consequences. How does the concepts of community and racial healing converge to move us forward towards greater equity and respect?
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UBE Sunday 2021
Honoring Our Saint: The Reverend Alexander Crummell
On Sunday, September 12, we celebrate the life and legacy of our notable saint, the Rev. Alexander Crummell. The Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) designates this day as UBE Sunday, to commemorate the racial justice ministry of this organization which was an outgrowth of the Rev. Crummell’s advocacy.
We encourage you to observe UBE Sunday on September 12 by remembering the life of The Rev. Alexander Crummell. Liturgical resources you may use on September 12 or on any other Sunday where you are reflecting on racial reconciliation can be found here. |
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from Episcopal Church of New Hampshire
Most people think of reparations as monetary payment for slavery. But reparations is about much more than financial recompense. It is about racial reconciliation. Thus, reparations work is a social endeavor.
It is what the Church is striving for with our Becoming Beloved Community. As described in the Becoming Beloved Community Long Term Plan, it starts with Telling the Truth about who we are so that we can Proclaiming the Dream of who we could be so we can be informed about how to Repair the Breach through Practicing the Way of Love.
This gathering will examine why we need reparations as a society and what steps we can take to make it manifest to bring about God's Kingdom on Earth.
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The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing hosts a conversation with executive director Dr. Catherine Meeks and Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary Sep 16, 2021 7 PM.
We invite you to join us for a sobering and provoking conversation as we explore the trauma within the African American community and discuss practical solutions. The discussion will focus on the impact that slavery, daily microaggressions and generational trauma has on African Americans. The consequences of such trauma compounds into the crippling fear, disparaging torment and debasing views of self-image. During this conversation, we will be exploring Audre Lourde, James Baldwin and Howard Thurman as we navigate solutions to healing. Come join us as we journey towards wellness together.
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Dates: Sept. 15, Oct. 20, Nov. 10,
7-8:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Location: Zoom
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Incubator: Black Liberation Theology
They are hoping to build a cohort (6-12 people) in Cincinnati to go through it and are looking for folks who are oriented toward acting for Black Liberation.
Register here. If you'd like to sign up as an individual, you can go to the link for the event (embedded), click the green "Tickets" button on the right, click promo code and enter "Cincinnati". Choose the Cohort Individual Ticket. Once you sign up there's a google form to complete, as well.
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(offered by Tema Okum)
This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article "White Supremacy Culture" originally written and published in 1999.
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Reparations: More than Money
an interview with Bishop Eugene Sutton of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Read it here
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Thanks to Harold Patrick for sharing this article:
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Diocese of Southern Ohio
800.582.1712
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