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Faith-Based Reparations

Anglican Communion

• Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice.  Racial Justice:  Final Report. London: Church of England, 2024.
• Sheila Marshall, documentary director.   “After the Flood:  The Church, Slavery & Reconciliation”.   Harrow, England: Movement for Justice and Reconciliation, 2022.

The Episcopal Church

• A Service toward Repentance.
  • Recording of service (January 24, 2025)  to honor and advance the work done on reparations by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
  • Bishop Mariann Budde, preaching
  • The liturgy included truth-telling, reckoning, and repentance for the harms done within the EDOW to the Black community from the enslavement era through the present.
• Report by the Church Pension Group on the Origins and Sources of Its Assets (May 2024)
• Diocese of Massachusetts. Reparations Toolkit
• DioMass. Inaugural Reparations Fund Committee
• Douglas, Kelly Brown, “A Christian Call for Reparations,” Sojourners (July, 2020).
• Jarrett-Schell, Peter. Reparations: A Plan for Churches. NY: Church Publishing, 2023.
  • See also this video conversation (59 min.) between the author and The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, hosted by Justin Hoffman.

Other Faith Groups

• Kwon, Duke L., et al. Reparations : A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Ada MI: Brazos, 2021.

• Shire, Michael & Pamela L. Werntz.  “Jewish & Christian Thought & Practice”.
  • Session 6.  Hebrew College, Open Circle Learning (video recording).
  • A dialog between the rabbi of Central Reform Temple and our rector.
• Turner, Robert, Creating a Culture of Repair:Taking Action on the Road to Reparations. Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2024.

 General Resources

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations,” Atlantic, June 2014. [may require purchase]
• “The Cost of Inheritance.”
  • America ReFramed: Season 12, Episode 1 (56 min.).
  • Public Broadcasting Service: 2024 (airing through 31 July).
• Darity, William A. Jr.  A Blueprint for Reparations in the US. Ted Talk (36 min.), June 2020.
• Darity, William A. Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. 2d ed. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
• Darity, William A. Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen & Lucas Hubbard (eds.) The Black Reparations Project : A Handbook for Racial Justice. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2023.
  • Essays by contributors in the fields of economics, public policy, history, public health, and education on building and implementing reparations programs, past and present.
• Kahloon, Idrees. July 28, 2025 “What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap” New Yorker review of Calvin Schermerhorn book The Plunder of Black America.
• Lee, Trymaine, podcast host. Into America: Uncounted Millions. MSNBC, February 2024 to present.
• McGhee, Heather. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. NY:  One World (Random House), 2021.
• Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law.  NY: Liveright (Norton), 2018.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin. The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made.  New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2025.
• Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents. NY: Random House, 2020.
• Wilkerson, Isabel. 2010. The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. NY: Random House.
• Wintersmith, Saraya, podcast host. What Is Owed? WGBH News, (7 episodes) February-March, 2024.