Damascus Road Anti-Racism Process

An Anabaptist antiracism training and skill development program

The name "Damascus Road" refers to the process of transformation that Saul experienced on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-31). While Damascus Road (DR) provides space for individual transformation, the entire program is designed to work toward long-term transformation of institutions, particularly churches and faith-based organizations.

 

Much of Damascus Road's attention is given to workshops and training events, though Damascus Road is careful to place this educational work in service to larger organizing goals of dismantling racism. Our current priorities in our antiracism organizing are building up work on internalized racist oppression and superiority and strengthening the DR network's connections to base communities. Damascus Road also provides other resources, such as networking events, consultation, and media resources. The DR Core Organizers group provides additional emphasis on broader organizing concerns, while the Core Chaplains seek to articulate a theology and spirituality of antiracism.