For Jevon Caldwell-Gross, pastor of teaching and guest experience at St. Luke’s United Methodist in Indianapolis, the George Floyd murder in April 2020 was a pivot point in the congregation’s determination to confront racism head-on. Before that, “my wife and a couple of other groups were really trying to have substantive conversations with the congregation…
“I assumed we would be looking to the inner city, because that’s where the poverty is,” Becky Hagarty said of her calling in 2001 to initiate a food pantry at Second Presbyterian Church. (See the related case study “Our Neighbors, Ourselves: Second Presbyterian Church and the Quest for Community Transformation.”) “When you want to do…