TOUR Transforming Our Understanding of Race
Our mission is to transform the understanding of race within and beyond our community, building toward a vision of racial equity through education and engagement. We offer a wide range of ways to learn and grow. Check out our newsletter for the most up to date activities, trips and courses. Add your name to our email list to receive the newsletter and other communications in your inbox.
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Learning, Activities, & Events
In a complicated and divided world, we must learn how to understand one another. TOUR offers many ways to look at history, develop new thinking and gain insight and perspective on experiences other than our own. There’s something for everyone in TOUR. Join us by attending classes, films and book studies or traveling to local and national sites. Become part of the team! Check out our latest newsletter and sign up at [email protected] to get on the mailing list!
Films
In partnership with the Darien Library, TOUR offers free films to the community three times a year. We’ve shown Tuskegee Airmen, Six Triple Eight, Amistad and others, each with a compelling related speaker and lively conversation. Documentaries and other films of more specialized interest are offered on the Saint Luke’s campus from time to time, complete with popcorn and small group discussion. Contact [email protected] with suggestions or to help out.
Book Studies
We look at race from a contemporary view with leadership from the Rev. Dawn Stegelmann or a Sacred Ground alum. These 3 or 4 session conversations recently included This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley, a deep dive into Maya Angelou’s seven autobiography series and more. Watch our newsletter or contact [email protected] to be included in the next small group conversation.
Trips
We absorbed are and history on Harlem’s streets, roamed the impressive Mashantucket Pequot Museum, prayed and cried in Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery and the MLK National Park. We tried to reconcile beautiful Charleston with its savage history of slavery. More locally, we’ll learn from experts on the Amistad and revisit Harlem. So much to see, do and carry forward. Contact [email protected] and join us!
Lending Library
The TOUR Lending Library is a cozy retreat open to all in the Tink Neubert Reading Room, near the parish office entrance. Discover books and materials on the history and present-day treatment and experience of Black and other non-white people in America. Tyler Merritt, Debbie Irving and Ta-Nahisi Coates are among the authors you’ll discover. Check out a book or take a while to browse and read. Contact [email protected] for more information or to donate books.
Sacred Ground
This 10-week small group course takes a deep dive into U.S. history and its impact. Participants have said that their understanding, their perspectives, and indeed their lives, have bveen changed. Through videos, articles and books, five groups of seekers have taken the course and a sixth will be offered next January. Are you ready? Contact [email protected] to find out more.
