St. Alban’s will again be offering the exciting program called Sacred Ground in furtherance of “Becoming Beloved Community,” the Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice.
Sacred Ground was inspired and created by Katrina Browne whose 2008 film Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North follows her and other family members as they came to grips with the discovery that their Rhode Island ancestors, the DeWolfs, were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history.
The 11-part program is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories. Small groups called “dialogue circles” 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.
For more information about the curriculum, to view the syllabus, and to preview some of the films, see the Sacred Ground website https://episcopalchurch.org/sacred-ground/invitation.
The program sessions will be held Thursday evenings at Christ Church, Eureka. Sessions will be 3 hours including the viewing of the films. We will begin on Thursday, November 7 and meet approximately every two weeks, which will take us through early April 2025. If you are interested in participating in Sacred Ground, contact the Rev. Sara Potter at revsara@stalbansarcata.org or Elena Byrd at wandelmultiverse@gmail.com by Friday, November 1.