Building a Racially Inclusive Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends has a storied history of work for racial equality, but we are learning that our true history is more complex. Few worshippers of color join our meetings.
Some feel unwelcome. The absence of our sisters and brothers of color is a deep wound, a tragic rent in the fabric of our loving community.
Friends of color inspired FGC to create the Committee for Ministry on Racism in 2000. Its role is to examine racist patterns of thinking and behavior and facilitate healing and wholeness in our meetings.
- Provides prophetic vision, leadership and support for Friends
- Organizes “Beyond Diversity 101” training programs for yearly and monthly meetings
- Sponsors listening sessions and meetings for healing at each Annual Gathering
- Supports the preparation of a book that FGC will publish in late 2008: Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice. See www.FitForFreedom.org for author interviews, related links and progress on the book and accompanying study guide.
Your gift to this campaign will subsidize workshops and conferences, support Friends traveling with a concern for racial diversity, enable the publication of Fit for Freedom, provide study materials for meetings to use in discussing this book, help support staff for this program and other activities that grow from these efforts.
