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Welcome to the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing website.  We're making a few changes to reflect the evolving future of the Center.  Please pardon the construction

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WELCOME TO OUR BRAVE SPACE.

The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing:
A Ministry of the Diocese of Atlanta and the Episcopal Church

"Our work continues"

"We’re still doing the work that Jesus gave us to do:  how to love across difference, how to respect the dignity of every human being."

       - Bishop Rob Wright   
 

A Welcome from Bishop Robert Wright

Our Mission is to provide tools and experiences that allow faith communities – and the larger community of individuals – to engage in dismantling racism through education, prayer, dialogue, pilgrimage, and spiritual formation.

Our Goals 

  • Establish and Promote a National Model for Dismantling Racism

  • Inspire faith and lay leaders to lead racial healing and reconciliation

Statement of Solidarity

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The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing acknowledges and pays respect to past and present tribal members of the Indigenous nations who were forcibly expelled from the lands Georgia now occupies: the Muscogee (Creek) and the Ani’yun’wiya (Cherokee). Standing in solidarity with all who are oppressed, we deplore the hatred and violence shown historically and in the present to Indigenous people, African Americans, African Caribbeans, Asian and Asian Americans, LatinX, Pacific Islanders, and all other oppressed persons. We will continually seek to dismantle the racism that threatens us all as human beings.

VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Our virtual library is filled with resources to educate, inspire, and prepare you to advance racial healing.  Our tools and resources are organized in a manner to affirm, honor, and take care not to dilute the individual cultural distinctiveness and diversity of a group..

Our Virtual Resource Center

Who Lived Here? Where Did They Go?

Who Lived Here? Where Did They Go? Remembering Vanished Neighborhoods and Their Historical Heart Beat 

Dr. Georgianne Thomas, Bishop Barbara Harris Justice Project Fellow 

Foreward: Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing 

Welcome to the documentary series "Who Lived Here? Where Did They Go?"  The stories of vibrant African-American communities that were uprooted in the pursuit of progress.

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Join us as we engage with some of the strongest voices of Atlanta's history.

Contact Us

The Work of the Church

Witness and be inspired about the healing work happening across the nation in the Episcopal Church. 

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Take a moment to submit the racial healing work in your parish and diocese.

Get to Know More About Us

Learn more about the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, its work, and legacy.

Learn more about the dream team that makes all of this hard work look easy.

WE CELEBRATE OUR PARTNERS

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