Moving the edges of understanding while creating a safe and open space for discussions on racism and racial justice have become hallmarks of the Convocation’s Racial Justice Book Group (RJBG), which is part of the Racial Justice and Beloved Community (RJBC) ministry.
Socorro Heepe was the Convocation’s Racial Justice Ministry representative to the conference – “Hope Makers: From Hostility to Hospitality – which brought together representatives from the Church of England (Diocese in Europe and the Racial Justice Unit), the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the World Council of Churches (WCC), United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG), academic institutions, interfaith organizations, and civil society partners.
As we begin this season of waiting and wonder, we are invited to return to the Source—to remember who we are and whose we are.
My favorite scriptural image is of God playing in the dirt—not making mud pies (as I used to), but making mud people. We are the mud people God formed from the earth, from humus. God made Adam—earth-being—of the very stuff that is our home. The Christ who came in great humility (humus) is the grounded Christ, the one who knows of what, by whom, and why he was made. He is of the earth and for heaven, bridging dust and divinity.