Sun, Nov 16 | 11:45am | Adult Study | Beyond the White Church: A Conversation on Anti-Racism in the UMC

What does it look like to name white supremacy within our own denomination and work to dismantle it? How do we move from awareness to action?

Join us for an after-worship conversation with Doug Cunningham, retired UMC elder and author of Beyond the White Church: Disrupting Racism, Rebuilding Faith Community. This dialogue is an extension of Epworth's ongoing commitment to anti-racist discipleship and our core value of lifelong education in service of racial justice. Doug is eager to learn from Epworth's reparations work and racial justice initiatives, and to explore how local congregations and annual conferences can partner in building a movement for racial equity across the church. 

Bring your curiosity and your questions, and your commitment to the work. 

Time and Location: Sunday, November 16 at 11:45 a.m. in Adult Study

Doug Cunningham

Doug Cunningham is an ordained pastor, activist, and former missionary whose forty-year journey began in the Philippines amid the resistance movement that toppled the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980s. He has ministered in white, multiracial, and Black churches in Oakland, Baltimore, and New York, including a church he started in the Bronx (2008-2019). He then joined a campaign led by Black Methodists for Church Renewal (2020-2025), which established the James Lawson Anti-Racism Commission (JLARC) in the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Beyond the White Church is his first book. Read more about his book HERE.