Dismantling Racism

The Presbytery of Baltimore became a Matthew 25 Presbytery November 9, 2023

A Joint Service and Covenant Between Govans and Knox Presbyterian Churches

Dismantling Racism Workshops

Baltimore Presbytery Policy on Dismantling Racism Training
Revised policy approved at 889th Gathering on November 14, 2020
Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, March 22, 2021

The Presbytery partnering with NEXT Church to lead this foundational workshop, rooted in an understanding of historical and systemic racism. It is intended to equip participants to lead and participate in constructive conversations within their congregations and the Presbytery that promote racial equity and begin dismantling racism within ourselves and our institutions.

This one-day workshop is for Teaching Elders and Ruling Elders required under Presbytery policy and open to other ordained and non-ordained leaders in their local congregations and Presbytery committee/commission members. The Presbytery offers this workshop at least once a year, sometimes open to people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds and others organized for affinity groups – people who share the same racial and ethnic identity. Registration information will be posted at least 4 weeks prior to each event.

Racism impacts peoples of color and white people differently. Therefore, we need to have different conversations and we have different work to do. Affinity groups by race should be a place:

to learn what we need to know for OUR work;
to strategize for OUR work;
to share successes and challenges in doing OUR work;
to support one another in doing OUR work.

Questions about the training? Feel free to contact: Susan Krehbiel, Social Justice Consultant, skrehbiel@baltimorepresbytery.org

Reform to Transform Sermon: The Encounter: When Justa Meets Jesus
Dialogue Sermon The Canaanite/Syphronecian Woman August 19, 2020

B’More Human Presentations

A Series of online discussions and presentations organized by the In The Loop Ministry Group

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 6

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 5

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 4

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 3

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 2

One Book, One Presbytery – Session 1

5th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts and Spoken Word Contest

Vital Black Congregations, Vital Black Clergy and Matthew 25

Women of Color in S.T.E.M.

2023 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Competition

Voting Our Values

Get Out The Vote Open Space Session

BIPOC: Experiences of Racism in the US

Baltimore and Race — How We Got Here

BIPOC Women Pastors Panel

Guest Speaker: Dr. William Yoo

Keynote speech and Q&A discussion at 889th Gathering of the Presbytery of Baltimore.

William Yoo is Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History and Director of the Master of Divinity Program at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the author of two books, American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity and The Presbyterian Experience in the United States: A Sourcebook, and is currently working on a book project that traces the history of Presbyterians in the United States.