Faith-Based Reparative Justice: A Tool for Racial Healing

Join faith leaders and congregants in an in-depth conference and intensive course to learn about the multiple dimensions of reparations and reparative justice. Discover how you can invite your congregation/temple/mosque deeply into this work in a multi-faith movement for reparations, with a vision for deep truth-telling, repair, and wealth redistribution with the faith community moving toward this work as a spiritual calling and moral imperative.

For white-majority congregations, how do we move towards healing and offering repair? For Black-majority congregations, how do we move towards healing and articulating reparations requests?

We will combine a democratically structured study and action oriented developmental path toward reparations with guest speakers from among the most powerful voices for faith-based reparations in the country. The goal of this conference is to equip participants with solid tools for moving their faith-based reparations organizing forward. Additionally, the conference will connect faith-based folks walking this same path so that they can continue to support one another in deepening and moving toward the deepest repair possible: relationally, spiritually, and through the transfer of resources.

Participants are encouraged to attend in teams of 2 to 5 from each faith community in order to become an organizing team within your congregation.

This course grew out of the Rise up for Reparations campaign in Philadelphia to engage 100 majority-white congregations in sincere reparations work that is accountable to Black congregations and Black grassroots organizations. Though we will focus on Philadelphia-area congregations, congregations from other areas of the country ready to send teams are welcome to join us.

Faith leaders’ action planning will be buttressed by monthly support and accountability meetings after the course, bringing together the faith leaders that participated in the cohort to move forward their congregational organizing plans.

Leaders

reparationWorks advances the movement to heal and repair from the harms of settler colonialism and chattel slavery in Philly and beyond. reparationWorks seeks repair on the levels of resources, Spirit, and relationship toward the re-membering of our connection with the kindom of creation. Read more at https://www.reparation.works.

Rise up for Reparations Campaign Steering Committee is a multi-faith campaign in Philadelphia to engage 100 white-majority congregations in sincere reparations work redistributing land, money, and other resources through the faith community while provoking healing for all. Read more at https://www.reparation.works/rise-up-for-reparations-campaign.

This conference is co-sponsored and co-organized by reparationWorks and the Rise up for Reparations Steering Committee.