It is easy not to talk about race at Grace Church--or the Episcopal Campus Ministry at Syracuse University for that matter. It is easy not to talk about it because both communities are amazingly diverse in race and class and we take the ease with which we get along for granted. At the same time, we readily acknowledge that we live in a bubble of harmony--the rest of the world is not like this--and it should be.
So we're going to talk about it. And we're going to help others to talk about it. The "it" is the prejudice and bias that we all carry while living into God's call to us to be agents of reconciliation. As the old saying goes, we all have issues. And we all have issues with bias, prejudice and racism. But if we talk about it, peel back the layers and go deeper with it, then we might be transformed and in turn transform the world.
The bishops of the Episcopal Church have been talking about this too. They wrote a pretty radical pastoral letter to the church about it. Check it out here. Read, post a comment, and let the conversation begin.
