My Life Mattered: Jayland Walker Speaks
In this response, Rev. Dr. Velda Love imagines what Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed after what started as a traffic stop, might say to us in this moment.
An Investment in Freedom: Join the Movement at General Synod 34
Join the Movement Curator Sharon Fennema reflects on finding hope at General Synod 34 through literally hundreds of conversations with folks who are doing the work and urging their communities to keep moving toward racial justice. She explores the need for interconnected and intersectional movements as investments in freedom for future generations.
December 7
…reproductive care they have discerned, journeying with them toward freedom. Jesus would have us sit in grief with those who have lost community and family members to violence at the hands of the system that is supposed to protect and serve them, mourning with them toward healing. Enriched, equipped and yet still waiting, we are called to be partners in…
Become a Poll Chaplain/Peacekeeper
Join our partner, Faiths United to Save Democracy (FUSD) and get trained to serve as a poll chaplain for the 2024 election. Along with FUSD, we believe that everyone is created in the image of God and deserves to vote in free, fair, and safe elections. With violence threatened at the polls in many states during the 2024 Elections, multifaith,…
December 25 - Birthing Dreams
…that grows? What if abolishing the prison industrial complex is the fruit of our diligent gardening, the building and deepening of a movement to respond to the violence of the state and the violence in our communities with sustainable, transformative love?” – Alexis Pauline Gumbs Into the cages, behind the bars, under the barbed wire, freedom sings like a…
December 4
…body memoirist and teaching artist. She holds an MSW, MFA and MDiv, and can be found on Instagram: @CokeTani, Facebook: @Coke.Tani and at CokeTani.com. You can also meditate with the podcast version of our Monday Movement practices! Listen to the reflection on all major podcast apps in our “UCC Cast” feed- every Monday morning this Advent. Follow UCC Cast…
December 3 - So That We Might Have Hope
…with healing and mercy. Root us in your word that births a “hope not made of wishes but of substance, hope made of sinew and muscle and bone,” so that we might move in the pathways of restoration not punishment, of transformation not retribution. In advent hope we pray. Amen. Artwork: “Hope” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…
December 19 - Here Am I
…of Creation and all that the Woman-born One comes to abolish. Prayer For co-creating hope, here am I. For a more just world, here am I. For envisioning freedom, here am I. For birthing Love and Transformation, here am I. Let it be with me according to your word. Amen. Artwork: “Consent” by Yohana Junker (discover more at: https://www.yohanajunker.com/)…