December 2 - Healing Land
…devastating odds, God is coming. Held by Black Farmer and family hands healing fertile soil, reclaiming grain and sun and moon and the earth with vision, plan, and action. Reparations, God is coming. Held in the relentless hearts of essential farmworkers growing our food while dusty, barb–wired walls cross land and families. Walls will crumble, God is coming. Rivers running…
December 14
All things in this world come to an end. That truth used to consume me with an overwhelming sense of dread and a frantic desire to rewind the clock in a futile attempt to put off the inevitable. But in recent days, especially in this season, I find an odd sense of comfort and peace in knowing that nothing…
What if the Spirit is a Breath?
On the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by police, Join the Movement invites us to take the time to remember the tragic and unjust losses of our precious kin and to notice how we continue to be called to join the movement of the Spirit toward racial justice.
December 10 - Welcoming All Our Relations
…day where no border or jail can separate us from the love we share with one another and the welcome we are called to embody. Strengthen our hearts: empower us to be bold and courageous as we work together towards decarceration, abolition and freedom for all. Amen. Artwork: “To All Our Relations” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…
December 6
The poet who created Psalm 80 was immersed in a community that was in deep distress. So distant they felt from God’s steadfast love and tender care that they were singing the story of their liberation and flourishing back to God, in the hopes that God might remember, turn back toward them with regard, and restore their freedom and…
Healing as Freedom, Freedom as Healing: Lineages of Emancipation toward Wholeness
…a Brush Harbor and a clearing, that teaches us the sound of freedom, echoing from legacies of healing and singing futures of wholeness all year round. This celebration was originally recorded on June 20, 2024. And continue your learning journey: Toolkits and Videos: Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom |…
November 28-Disarming Visions
…production, testing, and waste causes disproportionate harm to women, children, and people of color. As such, we must completely reject the legitimacy of nuclear weapons because the only guarantee these weapons will not be used again is through their complete elimination. We are called to walk in the light of God by turning our weapons of destruction into tools of…
December 17 - No One is Disposable
…one is disposable? May we live and embrace the infinite reach of freedom each day, with every fiber of our being. Prayer Beloved before and behind us. Beloved above and below us. Beloved conflict and transform us. Beloved heal and form us. Beloved be with us. Beloved prepare us. Amen. Artwork: “Activate” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…
December 1 - Leader-full Liberation
…even as we hold on to the hope-filled imagination of new branches, new freedom-fighters always emerging. While we are waiting, empower us to take up our role in the unfolding story of redeeming love and righteous freedom, so that your kindom may come in this time and this place. Amen. Artwork: “Liberate” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…
December 8 - Regenerative Liberation
…your coming like the desert dreams of water and you put among us prophets who speak into life abolitionist visions of blossoming abundance. As we long for your justice to come and dwell among us, keep us working to bring your promise to life, for we will see glory. Amen. Artwork: “Regeneracao” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…