{"id":31745,"date":"2025-12-01T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/?p=31745"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:33:56","slug":"faith-with-integrity-ebony-grisom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/faith-with-integrity-ebony-grisom\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith With Integrity\u2014Knitting Values and Actions Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31866\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slave_Manifest_of_the_Katherine_Jackson_1-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slave_Manifest_of_the_Katherine_Jackson_1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slave_Manifest_of_the_Katherine_Jackson_1-768x682.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slave_Manifest_of_the_Katherine_Jackson_1-850x755.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slave_Manifest_of_the_Katherine_Jackson_1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slave Manifest of the Katherine Jackson: the first page of a list of the enslaved persons transported from Alexandria, Va., to New Orleans on the Katherine Jackson in November and December, 1838. Many of the men, women, and children listed on this manifest were sold by Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, to Jesse Beatty and Henry Johnson. They were shipped by Robert A. Windsor of Alexandria and consigned to Lambeth &amp; Thompson of New Orleans.<br \/>Public domain; source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even before the Rev. Ebony Grisom \u201825 joined Georgetown University as its director for Protestant life, there had been ongoing conversation there about how the University ought to reckon with its history as a Christian institution which owes its survival to practices of enslavement. In 1838, the Jesuit order charged with the University\u2019s oversight sold more than 272 enslaved persons in order to save the institution financially. As the community\u2019s Protestant chaplain and as a Black clergyperson, Ebony says the story of the University and the 272 \u201ckept me up at night,\u201d and the need for her Christian-identifying community to process its history was \u201calive and active in my personal and vocational imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mentor encouraged Ebony to apply to Pittsburgh Theological Seminary\u2019s Intergenerational Black Church Studies Doctor of Ministry cohort, and within her first semester, Ebony began to find resonance between the D.Min. program and her ministry at Georgetown. \u201cThere\u2019s a virtual walking tour from the Slavery Memory of Reconciliation Working Group that highlights sites integral to the history around the 272,\u201d she says. \u201cI took it and thought, \u2018Where\u2019s the religion? As a Christian university, shouldn\u2019t these reflections be informed by our faith? How could this experience be augmented?&#8217; I thought of the stations of the cross, and designing a pilgrimage experience that integrated Scripture into a tour of on-campus locations significant in the story of the 272 became my D.Min. project.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John_Carroll_statue-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John_Carroll_statue-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John_Carroll_statue-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John_Carroll_statue-850x549.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/John_Carroll_statue.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue of John Carroll, Georgetown founder, on the University&#8217;s campus. The statue is one of the sites featured on Ebony&#8217;s tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the project took shape, Ebony started to see the tour as part of an awakening not only to the University\u2019s history, but to its present as well. \u201cWe have our core collection of \u2018Jesuit values\u2019 displayed on banners around campus\u2014academic excellence, faith that does justice, care for our common home, etc. If we\u2019re all here in community, then in theory, we\u2019ve all subscribed to these values. So it is appropriate for students, staff, and others to point out when we\u2019re not doing what we say\u2014especially at a religious institution, where we really believe these values matter. After a tour one research participant said, \u2018I wanted these things\u2014the Scripture readings reflecting our community\u2019s stated values and the facts about our past\u2014to go together, but I had to admit to myself that they didn\u2019t.\u2019 When we\u2019re able to say out loud that our actions and our values have not aligned, we can become agents of interrupting, so we don\u2019t carry that disintegrity into the future. It\u2019s an invitation to do better, to be who we say we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of Ebony\u2019s work, the Seminary recognized her with the Faculty Prize in Public Theology and the Richard J. Rapp Memorial Award in Doctor of Ministry Studies. Raised by Covenant Community Presbyterian Church as a memorial for the Rev. Dr. Richard J. Rapp, the first director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at PTS, the Rapp Award provides copies of one or more outstanding doctoral papers to all ATS seminaries that have a D.Min. program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ebony-Grisom-crop-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ebony-Grisom-crop-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ebony-Grisom-crop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ebony-Grisom-crop.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>The Rev. Dr. Ebony Grisom &#8217;25 is director for Protestant life and Protestant chaplain at Georgetown University, where she also co-chairs the &#8220;Let Freedom Ring!&#8221; initiative. She is ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA and has served in congregational ministry , faith-based anti-poverty work, and as a Godly Play trainer. She was also co-convener of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA\u2019s Convening Table on Joint Action and Advocacy for Justice and Peace. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Providence College, Duke Divinity School, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<h2>Read Next<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30614\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/lessons-from-the-playground\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-850x1275.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kid-on-swing-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lessons from the Playground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30789\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/who-is-my-neighbor-andrew-taylor-troutman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal-850x566.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cardinal.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Glossary of Our Church&#8217;s Neighbors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before the Rev. 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