Bridging Trauma Awareness to Healing and Reconciliation 2019 Reading Material 
*The Ohio State University
KIRWAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY 

*Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley
Upcoming ARPR training (Save the date) 
June 13 from 10a-2p at Eastgate Christian Church 
Please stay posted for further details about this training or you can email office@kcdisciples for questions. 
Co-sponsoring scholarships, congregational workshops, and capacity building for organizing the work of trauma-informed anti-racism.
Donations accepted anytime (Click on links below)! 
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Reconciliation Special Day Offering
 
 
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Another ARPR Opportunity Click on button below ​
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Small Clergy Group for Anti-Racism/Pro-Reconciliation Training

Several clergy are meeting together for discussion and learning, and any clergy interested in joining us are invited.
    We're reading "A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960." Our November and December gatherings will be at 10am at Overland Park Christian Church. The January gathering will be an audio tour of Kansas City. 

Wednesday, November 13-Book Discussion OPCC @10am
Wednesday, December 11-Book Discussion OPCC @10am
Wednesday, January 8-Audio Tour of KC Location TBD @10am

Email tdjohnson76@hotmail.com for questions/details

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MORE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ALSO MEET LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Racial Equity 2-day workshops:
​Register  HERE

If  "sold out,"  folks should send an email to
​Stephenie Smith (stephenie@sophicsolutionsgroup.com ) or Rodney Smith (rodney@sophicsolutionsgroup.com) so they can be placed on a waiting list and have first dibs for November 7-8 and December 12-13 REI workshops.  They offer sign-ups 2-3 weeks before the trainings.  

***Must attend 2 of 3 to fulfill credit requirements 
*REI racial equity institute, llc
 
Goals for our work together include:
  • Equipping ourselves and others to become trustworthy allies and effective and faithful collaborators  who challenge systemic racism anywhere and work for racial and economic justice everywhere
  • Helping followers of Jesus to know that the work of dismantling systemic racism is an essential part of what it means to be one of his disciples

In the section below we will gratefully share additional resources from individual contributors who have given us permission to share their work.  As this section grows, we will consolidate links onto documents that list the resources by category.  If you have found material worth sharing and you have permission to do that, please contact us.

 Below is a list of ARPR Resources  (Resources with *** meet requirements)
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Resources:
·       Reconciliation Ministry workshop materials (Introduction to Power Analysis and Train-the Trainer manual
·       ***G.S. Griffin, Racism in Kansas City: A Short History, 2015
·       Sherry Lamb Schirmer, A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960, 2002
·       Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014
·       Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, 2017
·       Mary Frances Berry, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, 2005
·       Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States,2015
·       James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, 2018
·       Thabiti AnyiAbwile, “Reparations are Biblical” (Click Here)  
·       ***Kendi, Ibram X.. Stamped from the Beginning, 2017
·       Kendi, Ibram X., How to Be Anti-Racist, 2019
·       Felix Nguah and Robert Kugbey, Shackles in Darkness: A Handbook on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 2015
·       Ato Ashun (enquiries for the DVD video) Elmina Castle and the Slave Trade
·       Video tour of El Mina Castle with Global Ministries Partners, 2018
·       Miguel A. De La Torre, “For Immigrants” in Rebecca Todd Peters and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, To Do Justice, 2008
·       Melvin Bray, Better: Waking Up to Who We Could Be, 2017
·       Brenda Caldwell and William Fox Jr., Journey Toward Wholeness: A History of Black Disciples of Christ in the 
       Mission of the Christian Church, 1990 
·       ***Sandhya Jha, Room at the Table, 2009 and Transforming Communities, 2017
·       Brian McLaren, Elisa Padilla, Ashley Bunting Seeber, eds., The Justice Project, 2009