Join us as we gather Wednesdays at noon to step into the peace of the Lord’s presence in the midst of our busy lives.

This coming year, we’re offering a second opportunity to participate in the Sacred Ground curriculum of the Episcopal Church. Introductory information can be found here: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/sacred-ground/invitation/

This course brings together a Circle of participants, and it is an opportunity to bring our faith and our own stories into conversation with significant resources about racial reconciliation in the United States. The focus on sharing stories, listening to understand, and proceeding from faith understandings, give us a place for a powerful kind of work around reconciliation that doesn’t depend on political teams or divisions, but instead focuses on what it looks like to build “beloved community” together. Rather than insisting on answers, this work provides process and relationship together, giving participants a chance to talk, think, reflect, and pray about serious issues around racial reconciliation, and work to discern what each of us has as our role to play in that. Thoughtful readings raise real questions, but also give us frameworks to think through together about what might be done from the perspective of followers of the Gospel of Jesus. You can expect to be challenged and probably upset at some point by the work, but also encouraged and given better tools for thinking through serious issues.

There are two books to buy for the course, Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited and Debbie Irving’s Waking Up White book, and scholarships are available to cover the costs of those if needed. (Both books are brief and based on personal stories, and each week one or two short chapters are covered.)