Coming This Month: Sacred Ground - A Winter Dialogue Series on Race and Faith
Starting in January, Mars Hill United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Mars Hill and the Madison County Racial Justice Coalition are collaborating to launch a Madison County-based dialogue series on race and faith.
Sacred Ground is a film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded and deeply rooted in faith. The 11-session series invites small groups like the one we’re forming to walk through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class and political and regional identity, such as the unique ones we have in Western North Carolina.
By participating, we will be invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the unique challenges and divides of the present day — all grounded in our call of faith, hope and love. We plan for our dialogue sessions to kick off the week of January 15, 2023 through mostly in-person meetings. Each session will last approximately 90 minuets.
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Interested? Please register below and watch the below video from our recent orientation session.
The Dialogue Group will meet Saturday mornings from 9:30 am until 11 am:
February 4
March 4
April 1
May 6
June 3
July 8
August 5
September 9
October 7
November 4
December 2
January 6, 2024
Our Madison County-based Dialogue Circlebegin s in January 2023. Space is limited. Please register now.
What is this Dialogue Series on Race and Faith?
As intended by Sacred Ground, our Madison County-based dialogue series is a sensitive, prayerful resource that creates space for difficult but respectful and transformative dialogue and conversation on race and racism.
This intentional dialogue series will invite participants to walk back through history in order to peel away the layers that brought us to today, reflecting on family histories and stories, as well as important narratives that shape the collective American story.
We hope the series will be a guiding star for our vision of beloved community – where all people are honored and protected and and nurtured as beloved children of God, where we weep at one another’s pain and seek one another’s flourishing.*
* description refers to Sacred Ground’s description at https://www.episcopalchurch.org/sacred-ground/about/