Category: Social Justice

Please join us on Sunday (4 July 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We have completed our White Fragility book study group using the book by Robin DiAngelo.

Continuing our focus on living into the Eighth Principle, we will have a conversation about what our group will do next.

Bring your ideas for books, videos, or other resources we might employ to deepen our knowledge and understanding of systemic racism and how we work to dismantle it within our institution, our wider community, and ourselves.

We will also watch a video interview with Ibram X. Kendi.

Please join us on Sunday (27 June 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 12 — “Where Do We Go From Here?”

This final chapter in the book looks at the ways we can use what we’ve learned as we move forward in the work of antiracism.

Please join us on Sunday (13 June 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 10 — “White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement.”  We will explore ways in which our group covenants can sometimes reinforce norms of white supremacy culture and what we can do to avoid that.

As you’ll recall, we began this current conversation looking at our All Souls Covenant of Right Relations.

In light of this chapter and what we’ve learned throughout our exploration of the book, we will revisit our covenant through an anti-racist lens.

Are there portions that we would rewrite?  If so, how?

Please join us on Sunday (6 June 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 9 — “White Fragility in Action.”  We will explore the the various ways in which white people employ the “How dare you” response to any suggestion they may be complicit in racism.

We will look at a number of the faulty assumptions often made by white people conditioned by white supremacy culture and think about effective ways we might speak back to those in others and ourselves.

Please join us on Sunday (30 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 8 — “The Result: White Fragility.”  We will explore the way that white fragility — by turning the narrative around to portray white people as victimized — can ultimately be a form of bullying.

We will explore ways to recognize and interrupt that response in ourselves and others.

Please join us on Sunday (23 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 7 — “Racial Triggers for White People.”

We will explore some of the road blocks of defensiveness that can prevent white people from engaging in honest conversations about race or dealing with challenges to their own racial identity and position.

Please join us on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 6 — “Anti-Blackness.”

While it can be helpful and necessary to speak in generalizations about white people and interrupt the hyper-individualist mindset, that same type of generalization can be damaging to people of color as it may trivialize the different patterns of racism that each group experiences.

In this chapter, DiAngelo explores the uniquely anti-black pattern of racism that has been integral to white identity, the idea of black people as “the ultimate racial other” and how that is the underlying foundation of white fragility.