Racial Justice and Healing
Using our Narrative to Change the Narrative
As we continue to tell the truth about our racial history, we also seek to be repairers of the breach through education, exploration, and advocacy.
Walking with the Enslaved: The Church’s Role in Slavery
This faith-based pilgrimage program invites participants to explore and reflect on Richmond’s racial history and its lasting impacts to inspire justice-oriented action today. Inspired by the Richmond’s Trail of Enslaved Africans, participants visit key historical sites tied to enslavement and learn about the Church’s involvement as an architect and beneficiary of the East Coast’s largest domestic slave trade. This program is being developed through a prayerful and deepening relationship with St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.
Truth Telling Team
Truth Telling Team, a group that shares St. Paul’s racial history with the public through an online toolkit entitled Exploring Race & Repair in Faith Communities and a short documentary film, Christopher Graham’s book Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church, History Tours of the St. Paul’s sanctuary, the Stations of St. Paul’s, and speaking engagements.
Education
Opportunities for learning and reflecting on racism and racial justice include single events as well as study series throughout the fall and spring.
