New City Cleveland, in partnership with Building Hope in the City, presents to the Christian community in Cleveland a set of four gatherings in 2024 for spiritual formation around racial reconciliation and the gospel.

We believe that a faith-rooted framework for reconciliation will better equip us to love our neighbors, act justly, do mercy, and walk humbly. In a city marked by segregation and suspicion, it can seem intimidating to cross lines of hostility. We may even find ourselves drawing those very lines with our own hands. But God calls us to a better way. A way marked by Spirit-empowered reconciliation. And it has been our Creator’s plan all along. 

Over the course of four gatherings, participants will journey through the biblical narrative with a lens to see how God has always been at work to create a reconciled people for Himself.

We invite participants to learn and understand through the framework of community. From Genesis to Revelation we see the journey from an original community, to a broken community, to an idolatrous community, to a renewed community, and finally we look toward a perfected community. We encourage participants to view themselves as active participants in this journey– with both an inheritance and an entrusted mission

Interested in hosting a workshop for your church or organization? Let us know!

Dates

  • Grace Matters: Part 2

    TBD

  • Grace Matters: Part 1

    TBD

  • Grace Matters: Part 2

    TBD

Want to learn more?

Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins 

White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means To Be White by Daniel Hill

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by Jasmine Holmes

From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race by J. Daniel Hays

Reading While Black by Esau McCauley

Liberation and Reconciliation: A Black Theology by J. Deotis Roberts

Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance by Reggie L. Williams

Books

Serial: Season Three, Cuyahoga County Justice Center

1619 Podcast

CCDA Podcast

Colored Commentary Podcast

Love Thy Neighborhood Podcast

Carved in Ebony Podcast

Southside Rabbi Podcast

Where Ya From? Podcast

Podcasts