Reconciliation

Our Purpose

The Commission on Reconciliation is committed to confronting injustices with Jesus' love.

Our Mission

The Commission on Reconciliation is guided by the vision of Becoming Beloved Community, our church’s long-term commitment to racial justice, healing and reconciliation. We’re all on a lifelong journey toward God’s dream, taking intentional and faithful steps as if moving through a labyrinth.

Contact: Derek Scalia, Chair

Our Work

The Reconciliation Commission upholds the following diocesan priorities to speak and witness to in the public sphere:

• Immigration and Refugees

• Indigenous People Rights and Reconciliation

• Mass Incarceration

• Racial Reconciliation

• Good work continues to be done in these and other areas — thanks to those within our communities and parishes who work tirelessly (and passionately) advocating for those who have no voice.

Our Members

• The Ven. Derek Scalia, Chair

• The Rev. Canon Gail Avery

• Betty Lane 

• Susan Lassen

• James McKim

• The Rev. Sarah Rockwell

• Jacquelyne Weatherspoon

• Canon Tina Pickering, Diocesan Staff Liaison

Grant Info

To apply for funding for special projects and ministries through the Reconciliation Commission, please review and complete the Reconciliation Commission Grant Proposal.

Resources

Worship

• Racial Justice, Healing and Reconciliation Resources

Learn

• Formation and Learning

• Reconciliation Resources

• Indigenous Environmental Justice

Serve

• Map of churches and the work of reconciliation

• Becoming Beloved Community

• Sacred Ground

• This Land Acknowledgement is available to the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire for use at any diocesan or parish gathering:

We acknowledge the spiritual and physical connection the Pennacook, Abenaki, and Wabanaki Peoples have maintained to N’dakinna (N-DAH-kee-nah) and the aki (land), nebi (water), olakwika (flora), and awaasak (fauna) which the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire strives to steward today. We also acknowledge the hardships they continue to endure after the loss of unceded homelands. We reaffirm The Episcopal Church’s renunciation of the Doctrine of Discovery. We repent of these sins and take responsibility for working to repair these damages ecumenically. We seek to foster relationships and opportunities that strengthen the well-being of the Indigenous People who carry forward the traditions of their ancestors.