“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
Our Commitment to Fighting for Racial and Social Justice
This page is intended to connect our community with opportunities to learn, pray, and act around issues of racial justice.
Vendor Initiative
As faith communities, we are called to be honest and prudent with our financial and human resources, and to use those resources to promote justice and dignity for all people.
One way that we can step forward to serve our city and help co-create God’s economy is to assess our vendor relationships and make an intentional effort to employ and contract with Black and minority owned businesses.
Read our statement of intention here.
Get your faith institution involved here.
Sacred Ground at Heavenly Rest, Led by Carolyn Crouch - Winter 2024
In February 2024, CHR parishioners were invited to walk through chapters of our country’s history of race and racism while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. Join the Sacred Ground journey, the Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, ministries, and society.
The 27th Bishop of the Episcopal Church Michael Curry described Sacred Ground as a spiritual practice. Over the course of 11 sessions, participants peeled away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope, and love. The documentary films and readings that comprise the Sacred Ground curriculum focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories. Learn more about and hear how Bishop Curry describes Sacred Ground here.
Faith, Civil Rights, & Racial Healing,
A Conversation with
The Rt Rev Duncan Gray, III &
Ambassador Andrew Young
Pastor, politician, diplomat, and civil rights leader Andrew Young shares his story of faith and change-making in dialogue with Duncan Gray, III, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Mississippi and advocate for racial justice within the church and beyond. Dr. Westina Matthews offers the introduction; the Rev. Matthew Heyd moderated. Watch here.
Recommended Reading
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism – Carolyn B. Helsel
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation – J. Chester Johnson
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor – Layla F. Saad
Healing and Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre - J. Chester Johnson