Conclusion

Antiracist leadership, working toward truly embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion, is based on actions taken that go deeply into the heart of our organizational vision and mission. Such leadership requires a renewed spirituality, one rooted in relationship, in attentive listening and confident speaking, in walking together to shape a common destination. The choices we make will determine the actions we pursue, including a new appreciation for darkness, a dedication to justice, and a reimagining of Christian spiritual traditions, often linked to racist discrimination, as a source of liberation and inspiration instead. Both actions and choices are dependent upon a new way of seeing, one freed from the lens of “race” determining our identities, having seen “race” as the result and product of a racist ideology meant to divide us and legitimate the oppression of many by a powerful few. All these are essential aspects of a spiritual approach that can empower and strengthen our commitment to antiracist leadership.