You’re the expert on your congregation.
We teach the path to liberative repair.
The guide.
This no-cost PDF is an 11-step guide that leads congregations from initial inklings toward reparations through congregational assessment and convening to celebration of concrete reparations plans. Use the Sacred Reckonings guide to organize your church or take its tools to guide your individual reparations journey.
The film.
This 26-minute documentary features interviews with Black, Indigenous, and White leaders reflecting on White churches, engagement with the reparatory process. Come be inspired, challenged, and guided in the sacred work of truth-telling, solidarity, and transformation that leads to genuine reparation.
Christian churches are called to reckon with histories of colonization and White supremacy that have broken lives, bodies, relationships, and the Earth. Sacred Reckonings is a holistic process teaching that reparation is more than just dollars. It includes truth-telling, spiritual practice, relationship, political solidarity, alongside wealth return. It is both heavy and joyful to begin to heal and repair these harms and we are called to do it in community.
We are building a movement of White Christians toward repair and reparation.
Come join us.
The Ecomap.
Reparations are broader and deeper than money. They are an intentional and multidimensional release of power. Explore the Reparatory Eco Map that we use to teach that reparations sits at the intersection of truth telling, spiritual practice, relationship, political solidarity, and wealth return.
The Training.
Learn practical organizing tools and exercises with real-time feedback in the context of an interconnected reparations framework. In this immersive experience, you will build a community of practice and accountability within your team and across the cohort to support your congregational work long-term.
Our Partners.
Whether you seeking a sturdy foundation before beginning your Sacred Reckonings journey or a partner to continue with your congregation after a Sacred Reckonings training, we’d love to connect you to the resource your church needs.
SACRED RECKONINGS IS A joint project of
Special thanks for grant support from the Louisville Institute and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.