THE ARC
"We shall overcome because the ARC of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Upcoming ARC Programs and Area Racial Justice Events
Because of the inclement weather in mid-January, Creating Common Cause has been rescheduled to Feb. 21. All tickets from the January date have been refunded. Please order new tickets for the Feb. 21 performance.
Get to Know the Anti-Racism Commission
Watch The Diocesan Anti-Racism Commission: A Resource for Racial Justice and Repair (5 mins)
Featuring: ARC Co-Chairs The Rev. Barbara Ballenger and The Rev. Ernie Galaz, Commission Member The Rev. Andrea Gardner, and Friend of ARC James Massey
We Need Racial Justice and Repair Now More than Ever
As we enter more deeply into this church season after the Epiphany, the glorious white vestments of Jesus’ birth and Epiphany and Baptism are put away, and we enter into the day-to-day work of what is sometimes called ordinary time, a flash of green on these snowy winter weeks.
The Scriptures that greet us on Sundays now remind us again and again what true discipleship asks of us, what the baptismal covenant that we recited at the Baptism of the Lord currently requires of us. The Feast of Absalom Jones, which the church celebrates on 2/13, reminds us of the power of such discipleship in our own city and in the world.
In these not-so-ordinary times, the courageous action that is empowered by our Baptismal covenant is needed now more than ever.
Now more than ever racial justice and repair is essential to the work, especially as it intersects with the safety of LGBTQIA people, of women, of immigrants and people without documents, of people marginalized by poverty, illness and social abuses, and of the earth as it undergoes ever expanding climate catastrophe. The Gospel calls us to stand with those among us who are hit first and worst by threats to their human dignity now more than ever.
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