Recognizing and Responding to Microaggression The Eastern PA Conference Healing the Wounds of Racism Commission will sponsor in January its first Dismantling Racism II workshop, established by the 2019 Annual Conference as a much-needed, advanced anti-racism training for those members who have …
A Statement and Call to Respond to Racism in Our Current Political Discourse, by CORR
Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you to resist evil, injustice and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves? I do. “The Renunciation of Sin” is a fundamental promise in The United Methodist Church’s covenant of baptism and …
Commission on Religion and Race Report: Quarterly Report – 07/12/2019
Commission on Religion and Race Chairperson: Rev. Alicia Julia-Stanley & Rev. Susan L. Worrell Report submitted by: Rev. Susan L. Worrell Email: rev.s.worrell@gmail.com Phone: (484) 883-7628 Date submitted: 07/12/2019 Recent Events & Activities April 2019 – Began conversations with the …
Commission on Religion and Race Report: Report for April 2019 – 03/26/2019
Commission on Religion and Race
Chairperson: Revs. Susan Worrell & Alicia Julia-Stanley
Report submitted by: Rev. Susan Worrell
Email: rev.s.worrell@gmail.com
Phone: (484) 883-7628
Date submitted: 03/26/2019
Eastern PA’s Call to Action efforts moving from talk to action
In its 2018 Call to Action* report to the Northeastern Jurisdiction Vision Table and Episcopacy Committee, the Eastern PA Conference reports recent strides and next steps that suggest real movement against racial ignorance and inequity that have too long seemed …
Apply for Whites Confronting Racism training by Jan. 15
“Racism is probably the greatest evil we face in our society.” That view is expressed by one eager applicant for the new Whites Confronting Racism training series the Eastern PA Conference will offer to 18 white (European American) clergy leaders this year. …
Whites Confronting Racism Workshops
Program Summary: The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference is committed to dismantling racism. An intensive program to train 18 white (European American), clergy leaders to enhance the anti-racism work in the EPC is proposed. Program organizers will recruit highly committed clergy who …
Conference’s Butterfly Project takes flight
Leaders to address racial-ethnic groups’ claims of institutional racism By John W. Coleman Eastern PA Conference lead decision-makers met May 21 to hear frank, revealing criticism about observed and experienced institutional racism expressed in dialogue by three groups of racial-ethnic …
Conference members attend rally against racism in DC
[box] Visit our flickr album to view more photos from the Rally: Rally Against Racism [/box] A small community of Eastern PA Conference members chatted in the chilly, pre-dawn darkness of the Conference Office parking lot Wednesday morning, April 4, …
Conference to examine its institutional racism
Let’s talk about racism. Many in the Eastern PA Conference have been doing that for years, and even more intensely the past few years. From Healing the Wounds of Racism and Changing Racism interactive training events, to Annual Conference guest …