Racial Justice and Healing Retreat

ECMN’s Racial Justice and Healing Commission will host a retreat for racial healing and justice-making on Saturday, September 20th at St. Andrew’s by the Lake Episcopal Church in Duluth.

The retreat is a partnership of ECMN and Duluth area churches: St. Andrew's by the Lake, St. Paul's, and Trinity. During this retreat we will look at how systemic racism impacts education. Dr. Kat Werchouski, member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, will speak on the history and current impact of Native boarding school. Duluth school board member, Henry Banks, will address how we can work for equity within education. The Rev. Craig Lemming, Associate Rector of Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Saint Paul and member of ECMN's Racial Justice and Healing Commission, will be our guest preacher. 

This in-person retreat utilizes our Eucharistic liturgy as a frame for understanding ministries of racial justice and healing as an integral element of our ongoing spiritual formation and discipleship. The retreat will interweave components of prayer, somatic (body) work, lecture, small group sharing, and tools for how to respond to what you will learn.

We will gather at St. Andrew’s by the Lake on Saturday morning at 8:30am for coffee and breakfast and conclude our time at 5:30pm (lunch will be included). Please do not register if you cannot be present for the entirety of the retreat.

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If you have questions please contact Anna Ostenso Moore at anna.om@episcopalmn.org.

We are committed to making this retreat accessible to all. You are invited to pay what you can. When you register, you will be given the option to either attend the event for free, pay $25 to cover the cost of food, or pay $50 or $75 to make this retreat as accessible to as many people as possible.