MISSION & Ministry
Racial Justice Beloved Community
We seek to create Beloved Community, working to increase hope by dismantling the sin of racism, learning to understand and own our part in what has gone before by commission or omission, acting with courage to stand up and speak out as we move beyond ourselves to serve Christ and one another.
Canon for Racial Justice and Beloved Community
The Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth
It is with much joy that we welcome The Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth as the Convocation’s new Canon for Racial Justice and Beloved Community. Mpho has accepted the call to open our eyes and hearts to the sin of racism, to guide us to repentance, and to encourage us as we seek to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ by fulfilling our part of God’s dream of beloved community. In exercising her ministry, Mpho will seek to help us enter more fully into the work already begun. We thank Mpho for accepting this call and offer a heartfelt welcome!
Canon Mpho also serves as Priest in Charge of All Saint’s Episcopal Church in Amsterdam NL, the newest mission congregation of the Convocation.
What Drives Us
A Covenant for Dismantling Racism, Advancing Racial Justice and Building Beloved Community in Europe
Racism is a sin. It disrupts the harmony and oneness that God intends for humanity. Racism is dangerous, divisive and damaging. Racism destroys dignity and disregards the image and likeness of God found in every human being. We are created in the image of God; therefore, to engage in racism in any form is to refuse to acknowledge the image of God in the other; and to deny or ignore the truth of racism and the pain and damage it causes, is to subvert the love of Jesus.
RJBC Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
RJBC Book Club
Our book club is meeting 4 times this year and all meetings are on Zoom starting at 10:00:
- 11 Jan
- 12 Apr
- 12 Jul
- 11 Oct
Please come along and share what you discover, discuss the major themes, explain what you didn’t like, describe how we fit in and examine what each book says to us about racial justice and beloved community. Even if you’ve read one of the books before, the discussion will be different. We are a vibrant group. Come with an open mind. Scroll down to learn more about what we have planned.
APL | RJBC “All Sinners Are Welcome”
Racial Justice Beloved Community, in partnership with EICS, presents a second session of their APL series "All Sinners Are Welcome", encouraging and teaching how to explore radical hospitality, self-reflection, and the pursuit of Beloved Community within the church....
Current membership of the racial justice beloved community ministry
david case
Chair, Member of Church of the Ascension (Munich, Germany)
haswell beni
Member of St. James (Florence, Italy)
Slyvie Botétémé
Member of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris
Stéphanie Burette
(Oxford, England)
Lois Stuckenbruck
Liaison to Council of Advice, Member of Church of the Ascension (Munich, Germany)