Background/Rationale Racism is not a problem to be solved. It is an insidious virus part of society’s collective DNA. It is a malicious condition that affects us all. It is in the air we breathe, in the conversations we have, in the thoughts that invade our brains, and in the tilting of our internalized ideas that have been fed to us about ourselves and others. The Synod of the Covenant is not immune to this shared human struggle and experience. The Synod’s past, recent, and