Communications Staff 7/16/25 Communications Staff 7/16/25

Racial Audit Implementation Team Update - July 2025

We Have Not Finished Yet...

In the Methodist tradition, justifying grace is one of the ways God’s grace moves in our lives. It refers to the moment when a person accepts God’s offer of forgiveness, and through Christ, is reconciled with God. This is not the end of the spiritual journey, but rather a turning point, a reorientation toward new life, community, and justice. Justifying grace reminds us that while grace is freely given, it calls us into ongoing transformation.

As a member of the original Racial Audit Task Force, I learned a lot about the history of MFSA. I studied documents, read interviews with those involved in the past, and helped conduct a survey of current participants.

Communications Staff 6/16/25 Communications Staff 6/16/25

Racial Audit Implementation Team Update - June 2025

Reflection on Repentance

The MFSA Anti-Racist Audit Implementation Team has spent considerable time exploring what repentance, as an organization and institution, can and ought to look like as we seek to guide MFSA toward living into and meaningfully addressing the findings of the MFSA Anti-Racist Audit.

Communications Staff 5/19/25 Communications Staff 5/19/25

Racial Audit Implementation Team Update - May 2025

Reflection on Theme 1

Theme 1: MFSA prioritizes white comfort, focusing on “white saviorism” and being “the good white ones”. This behavior results in performative allyship. It commodifies and renders People of Color invisible.

Communications Staff 3/26/25 Communications Staff 3/26/25

Working Toward Justice

As we embrace the journey of dismantling racism within the Methodist Federation for Social Action, it is clear that we have a monumental task ahead—not just in our conversations as the Racial Audit Implementation Team, but in confronting the ways our institutions, even with good intentions, have upheld the practices of the majority culture.

For too long, the church has been silent and complicit in both subtle and overt forms of racism. People have left the church because it has boldly professed that all are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), yet remained silent in the face of injustice. We proclaim that there is no longer slave nor free (Galatians 3:28), yet we have been complacent in systems of oppression.

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Racial Audit Implementation Team Update - January 2025

The Racial Audit Implementation Team came into being almost one year ago. There are six members of the team, two of whom were part of the Racial Audit Team. Bridget Cabrera, our Executive Director, is also part of the team. The team has been challenged by a number of logistical things in the past year – finding dates in everyone’s busy schedules to meet monthly, taking time out to prepare for and attend General Conference in the spring, and working only by Zoom meetings.

Communications Staff 5/23/22 Communications Staff 5/23/22

An Update from Our Racial Audit Team

Learn more about the work of the Racial Audit Team.

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Racial Audit Reflection from MFSA Board President

“We are great at naming forms of explicit bigotry and at the same time, lack the tools to deal with our own fears of our white cultural power and spaces being replaced.”