This Month's Issue

“We can’t pretend that there aren’t issues in the church,” says Renée Battle-Brooks, executive director of the Prince George’s County Human Relations Commission in Maryland. She serves as the chair of the recently formed Columbia Union Task Force on Racism in the Church.

« C’est une nécessité pour nous tous d’être inclusifs, d’évaluer la façon dont nous exerçons le ministère et essayer de se respecter et de s’honorer les uns les autres en tant qu'enfants de Dieu, travaillant ensemble pour faire avancer la mission et essayer de comprendre le point de vue de chacun », ajoute Dave Weigley, Président de l’Union de Columbia.

The previous school year taught many lessons as educators converted in-person lesson plans into material for online classes. Administrators are carrying many of them into the current school year—whether online or in person. Here are just a few of the lessons learned:

Si bien algunos incidentes raciales recientes pueden ser fáciles de ignorar o de explicar, su impacto, combinado con los recuerdos de casos históricos de racismo, aún resuenan en la iglesia.

Teachers have been studying best practices for online education, redefining schedules, learning new software programs and thinking outside the box for ways to establish relationships and growing a community.

It’s imperative to “talk to children about abuse. Tell them… that if anyone ever says anything to them or touches them in a way that is inappropriate, or they feel uneasy around someone, that they should object… loudly and vocally,” Schwirzer says. 

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At that meeting, committee members approved $1.4 million in COVID-19 stimulus funds to be sent to the union’s conferences and Washington Adventist University.

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