Dear Friends in Christ: Alleluia, Christ is Risen! As Easter people, we know that the miracle of the Resurrection offers us new life in Christ. But a whole new life is a lot to think about! Not all Easter people respond to the Good News in the same way. In John’s gospel, Mary Magdalene…
The diocese has retained Church Re-Imagined to conduct a listening process about the diverse needs, perspectives, and aspirations of the youth and families served by our diocesan youth programs. The listening process includes a survey, Zoom meetings, and in-person conversations open to all who would like to participate. Feel free to share this information with others who…
April 22 and May 1 on Zoom On April 22 and May 1, people from across the Diocese of Chicago will gather on Zoom to discuss Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond. Desmond, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, teaches and researches poverty as professor…
The Antiracism Commission is responsible for evaluating and recommending antiracism workshops and trainings that meet the diocesan requirements for clergy and lay leaders. The commission also negotiates diocese-subsidized rates for Episcopal clergy, lay leaders, and staff. Current trainings offered by Crossroads Antiracism and Organizing are described below. Please see Instructions on How to Register on Crossroads Website…
Satisfies requirement of three-days of antiracism training for clergy. Prerequisite is one-day Animating Antiracist Ways of Being. Training should be repeated every five years.
This Crossroads workshop builds upon the foundation of their Animating Antiracist Ways workshop. From White Supremacy Toward Liberation is an intensive workshop that explores a power analysis of white supremacy and systemic racism in the United States.
Please see instructions on how to register on the Crossroads website. Register at Crossroads for the May 2-4, 2024 From White Supremacy Toward Liberation with the access code EDOCLib. You will not be charged at registration. The Antiracism Commission will later bill you $125. For more information contact Lucas Sweitzer.
On Saturday, May 11 from 9 am to 5 pm, the Antiracism Commission of the Diocese of Chicago will host a workshop called Animating Antiracism Ways of Being presented by Crossroads at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn. The May 11 workshop is open exclusively to members of the Diocese of Chicago. The cost is $20 and registration is capped at 40 participants. Register online.
The one-day training, formerly called Introduction to Antiracism, satisfies the antiracism training requirement for elected and appointed diocesan lay leaders and is a prerequisite for the three-day training required of clergy every five years.
Satisfies requirement of one-day of anti-racism training for elected and appointed lay leaders. This course is a prerequisite for the three-day training required of clergy. Training should be repeated every five years.
The Animating Antiracist Ways of Being workshop (formerly called Introduction to Antiracism) offered by Crossroads builds a foundation of shared analysis of systemic oppression among colleagues, establishes skills for talking about race and racism, and introduces participants to Crossroads’ applied tools for dismantling racism: an equation framework to describe systemic racism, an applied power analysis, and the Continuum on Becoming an Antiracist Institution.
Saturday, May 11, 2024 – 9am – 5pm Central Time at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glen Ellyn, IL. This will be a private offering customized for the Diocese of Chicago. The registration cost is $20 per person, limited to 40 people.
Register with the Diocese of Chicago for the May 11, 2024 private offering of Animating Antiracist Ways. The cost of the private offering, $20 per person, will be charged at registration. Contact Lucas Sweitzer with questions.
