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In this video, Judith Roberts, ELCA senior director for diversity, equity and inclusion, reflects on how the National Day of Racial Healing, launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, calls us into transformation, truth-telling, equity-building and the work of forming relationships rooted in the ELCA’s commitment to authentic diversity.
Roberts connects this commitment to the ELCA’s broader call to transform the systems and institutions we’re part of across the church’s whole ecology. She reminds us that intentional, visible engagement in our communities is essential to our shared work of racial healing.
“I hope that listening deeply to the realities and the history and the story and the culture of our siblings of the ELCA will help to open our eyes and ears to the lived experiences [so] that we will grow in our empathy with one another,” Roberts said. “[And] that we will continue to have a heart to live out and to strive for a call for justice, which our baptismal covenant invites us into every week, every Sunday, every day.”
