The Saint Luke’s Parish TOUR Task Force
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27
Transforming Our Understanding of Race Task Force, or TOUR, is our initiative to live into our Baptismal promise. To make progress towards our goal, we strive to deepen awareness of our country’s history and to ask what we, as a church and as individuals, can do to facilitate needed change. Email jboyd@boydandassociates to learn more.
Upcoming TOUR Events
Spring Book Study with Dawn Stegelmann
Fridays, May 17, 24, 31 & June 7 | 12-1:30 PM | Taylor Room
Join us for a four-week series about the mothers who raised and shaped three of the most well-known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement amid Jim Crow laws and the struggle for racial justice. They taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth, dignity and respect of Black people in the face of prejudices and discrimination toward their loved ones and communities. Our book is: “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” by Anna Malaika Tubbs. Offered by Saint Luke’s TOUR (Transforming Our Understanding of Race) Task Force. Please call the Parish Office at 203-655-1456 to join this Book Study.
Saint Luke’s TOUR Lending Library opening soon!
To be located in Tink Neubert reading room (office building). Contact [email protected] for information.
Sacred Ground
Sacred Ground is a small group course addressing America’s history of race and racism through videos, essays, book chapters and stories. This course looks at the origins of discrimination, economic class, regional identity, and more to educate and encourage thoughtful consideration. Click here for more info on our Spring Session. To join the Fall Session Waitlist, email [email protected].
Other Resources
Freedom Trail Slavery Sites Walking Tour in NYC
Click here for an update from our April Walking Tour – it was a great experience! We plan to do something like this again. Please email [email protected] to register interest in a future tour.
Debby Irving, Author of “Waking Up White”
Workshop May 15 – Virtual
Do you relate to these sentiments?
1. Uncle Joe has become so impossible to talk to, I can’t even be in the same room with him anymore!
2. I wanted to say something, and I couldn’t find the words. I am so mad at myself.
3. Dang! I wish I hadn’t said anything. Things are worse than before.
4. I want to have a conversation with my racist/clueless/offensive friend, and I don’t even know where to start.
This interactive workshop will explore how to embed new, transformational norms into our personal and institutional practices, including skills to develop the authenticity and courage necessary to forge connection.
Register here
The Arts at St. Matthew’s La Fiocco
Zoom Presentation – May 15 – 7:30 p.m. (free)
Live Performance – May 18 -7:30 p.m. St. Matthews Epis Church New Canaan (tickets $30)
The Arts at St. Matthew’s will feature a group performing music by the black fiddlers at Monticello. Many of the offspring of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings were musicians and composers. There is a pre-concert talk on Zoom on the Wednesday prior. The presentation will include instructive details about the enslaved people at Monticello and trace their lineage to the modern day. https://www.stmatthewswilton.org/blog/la-fiocco/
