Healing the Wounds of Racism (HWR) oversees the Eastern PA Conference’s primary anti-racism training program for clergy and lay leadership in operation for over two decades. Today the training series is named Dismantling Racism, and it is offered in two levels—basic and advance.
All active clergy, certified lay ministers, conference staff and members of conference boards and committees are required to take the basic, Level 1 anti-racism course once. Active clergy must also take a Level II Dismantling Racism training each quadrennium. The Healing the Wounds of Racism Accountability Core Team, HWR trainings began after the 1996 Annual Conference passed its Plan toward the Elimination of Racism within the Eastern PA Conference.
Featured Resources
A Commitment to Support BIPOC-Owned Businesses
Statement by the Commission on Religion and Race
“. . . he (God) will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help.” Hebrews 6:10
We, the members of the Commission on Religion and Race (C.O.R.R.), in conjunction with the Healing the Wounds of Racism Core Accountability Team, are advancing our efforts to work for racial justice and reconciliation, having begun those efforts through coursework designed to help us reframe age-old paradigms about race. We seek to foster new learnings, understandings and commitments, as individuals in our denomination and in the world, to address the consequences that racial injustice and disharmony have manifested in the oppression of Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color (BIPOC)... Read More
Healing the Wounds of Racism News
- Color of Compromise book study to explore church’s ‘complicity in racism’
- Learn to prepare for a Congregational Racism Audit
- Sharing the Journey to end the sin of racism
- Moving Forward on Two Journeys to End the Sin of Racism
- Home From School: The Children of Carlisle: EPA CoNAM to show documentary April 30
Contact Us

The Rev. David Brown
Co-convener, Healing the Wounds of Racism
pastdave81@gmail.com

Mert Shane
Co-convener, Healing the Wounds of Racism
mmshane1@verizon.net