Awakening Sacred Memories: A Resource Guide for
Healing, Restoration, and Justice
Awakening Sacred Memories: A Resource Guide for Healing, Restoration, and Justice supports the sacred memory agenda of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC). Our sacred memory agenda is an acknowledgment that we live in a world in which narratives and stories, images, and social media are all a part of the cultural production of evil; they can likewise be part of the cultural production of good.
Our sacred memory agenda is an affirmation that the responsibility and charge to keep our true narrative alive is ultimately ours. Our sacred memory agenda can serve to be a force for global good. The United Nations (UN) declared 2015 – 2024, the International Decade of People of African Descent and the Permanent Memorial to Honor the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade at the United Nations, entitled 'The Ark of Return,' has been established at its New York headquarters. As a UN, non-governmental organization (NGO), SDPC's sacred memory agenda will contribute to the international collective impact of documentation, remembrance, and celebration initiatives being undertaken by people of African descent throughout the world, under the rubric of the UN's declaration.
SDPC's sacred memory agenda is an extension of our past truth-telling educational, advocacy, and activism initiatives. These initiatives include our “bearing witness” methodologies related to Katrina and mass incarceration resulting in a documentary, commissions, and hearings processes. By extension, this work has led to current projects that elevate truth-telling, justice, racial healing, and transformation ministry; thus, a sacred memory agenda. For us to be our best selves as “Wounded Healers” and “Warrior Healers,” more attention must be given to what Howard Thurman calls the “Inward Journey.”
We beseech and need you to continue the journey. We pray this guide will help us collectively to achieve that goal. May this guide prick your soul, your theological imagination, and ministry gifts to unleash a bountiful blessing of healing and health, compassion and love, strength and creativity to the people you serve.
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