Courageous Conversations: A Lenten Antiracism Journey
This Lent, partner with Join the Movement toward Racial Justice and commit to engaging in courageous conversations with yourself, with a few dear ones, or with your community. On each of the 40 days of Lent, we will offer a conversation/journaling prompt to help you explore more fully your connection to racial justice and practices of antiracism, along with a breath prayer and scripture reading.
Healing as Freedom, Freedom as Healing: Lineages of Emancipation toward Wholeness
…Juneteenth and Freedom! Historical Resources Africa’s Great Civilizations | Interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | PBS “On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation…
Lent 2024 - From Minneapolis to Palestine: Nourishing the Rising Up Journey
…discussion questions, and session outlines to help guide you and your community. You could also use the questions for personal reflection in a journal or as seeds for mediations. Download the Discussion Guide – Click here! Use our 40-Day Rising Up Journey – Woke Lent 2024 Calendar which includes daily reflections on the themes and quotes from the The…
‘You Can’t Let the Fear Stop You’: Solidarity Prayers for Good Friday
…inequities, resulting in high poverty levels, dangerous health conditions, pollution, and community divestment. As we seek to travel in your footsteps, empower us to resist and interrupt racism’s persistent and unrelenting violence and become the relief that is needed to move us always closer to freedom and new life. In solidarity with the Mvskoke people, Black freedom fighters, working class…
Election Season Spiritual Care Package
…are Sacred public art project spread like wildfire. The billboard reached a global audience. And the words, “Trans People Are Sacred,” took root, and catalyzed profound healing for individuals and communities the world over. After the success of the initial billboard, Save Art Space reached out to Jonah Welch to create a national-level project for this work. Spend some time…
December 23 - Defund/Invest
…rent and leisure, enough helping hands? Does God want body cameras? Or does God want us to live in a world where we show up BEFORE violence ever happens? In the UCC, we commit to being in covenant with one another. Which means we commit to caring for one another and remaining in right relationship. Policing ruptures that covenant, both…
December 23
…of enfleshed love and expansive liberation come true. Prayer To those made invisible, let this prayer come as recognition. To those deemed disposable, let this prayer come as cherishing. To those told they are too much, let this prayer come as abundant affirmation. To those left behind, let this prayer come as accompaniment. To those whose deaths are called…
December 4 - Repent
…the drumbeat of justice. Hear us as we repent our complicity and our complacency with systems that harm, and strengthen our hands to lift the downtrodden, the lonely, the outcast, and the forgotten, so that your new realm of freedom may come. May it be so, in Jesus’ name. Amen. Artwork: “Repent” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…