Category Archives: Racial Justice
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Third Thursday from the Racial Justice Working Group (October 2021)
Posted on October 21, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeI’ve been hearing the terms de-centering and re-centering a lot in the anti-racism webinars, books, presentations, you-tubes and trainings I’ve been attending and reading. Essentially, it refers to putting someone new in the center of a narrative and letting them tell the story. It yields a whole new perspective. So, for this Third Thursday article, […]
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Ways to Honor Indigenous Peoples Day Monday October 11, 2021
Posted on September 30, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeFCCW recognizes Indigenous Peoples Day as one of 11 holidays allowed for our employees in the Personnel staff handbook. Cyrus Dallin, Art Museum, Arlington MA – Thursday, October 7, 2021, 7 pm Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day: Ute Elder Forrest Cuch on History and Healing. This program builds on Cyrus Dallin’s lifelong commitment to listening to […]
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Third Thursdays from Racial Justice
Posted on September 23, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Racial Justice(OK, we know we can’t fool you – today is the fourth Thursday) This monthly column offers reflections from members of the Racial Justice Working Group. Anyone is welcome to write a message here – just contact one of us! Where’s your place in the caste system? Many of you recently participated […]
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SEPTEMBER 12 – Summer Read Discussion – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Posted on August 30, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Small GroupsMany church people have read the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson this summer. It is a unique view into the origins of racial strife in the United States. Using that perspective, Wilkerson leads us in identifying the aspects of caste that we live out today. Julianne Zimmerman will lead us in a discussion about the […]
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Third Thursdays from Racial Justice
Posted on August 18, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeRacial Bursitis August 2021 “With depth comes freedom.” I am getting over a sore shoulder. I began to carry tension in both shoulders in January and within a day or two the old bursitis showed up. My shoulder can do some things, but it has trouble with certain movements and some transitions. When my […]
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Third Thursdays from Racial Justice
Posted on July 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach, Racial JusticeThursday, July 15, 2021 We get it: racial justice is a heavy and complex topic, laden with centuries of grief, horror, guilt, and despair. Facing into it can feel overwhelming, painful, even hopeless. And anyway, what role could we as a relatively small, privileged, predominantly white suburban Protestant congregation possibly have in redressing systemic racism, individually or collectively? […]
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SUMMER READ: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Small GroupsIsabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She examines different caste systems around the […]
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Racial Justice: Talk, Learn, Act — Juneteenth Programs
Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeJuneteenth is celebrated throughout the U.S. on June 19th to recognize the end of slavery. While many people may have recently become aware of Juneteenth (a contraction of June and nineteenth), it has long been an important day in Black culture. It commemorates the announcement in Texas that slavery had ended, two and a half […]
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The Heartbreak of Myanmar
Posted on May 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeMany of you will remember that I visited Myanmar for the first time in 2011, conducting and witnessing my way through vast sections of the country. At that time, and for a few years after, this church was instrumental in providing much-needed funds to Myanmar’s children and young adults, assisting with life-giving education, food, […]
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FCCW Reads
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeThe Outreach and Adult Faith Exploration Ministries invite the entire congregation to join in a collective FCCW Reads activity this summer. The recommended book is “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi. We hope you will read it, think about it, and consider joining in some follow up discussions in the fall. More […]
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