December 11
I like to think of Paul’s letters as formational love letters. Letters of commitments, challenges, questions, dreams and responsibilities meant to weave together the people and places the world had tried to keep apart. I say formational love letters because each of Paul’s letters articulates ways of being in the world — practices and habits meant to ground and…
December 1
…justice, righteousness, and safety made flesh in our midst. Through our yearning, empower us to become the restoration we long for, grounded in dignity, reaching out in relationships, practicing radical belonging, and embodying transformative love. Until those days come, we pray. Amen. Freedom Song Music: “Hide Not Your Light” by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan Offered by: Dr. Sharon R. Fennema…
December 8
In the city where I live, there is a harm reduction group called “Church of the Safe Injection.” Every Thursday afternoon they distribute Narcan, fentanyl testing strips and other harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and those in community with them. Recently, an individual man started to show up, harassing the group and making violent threats. Because…
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 24
…your radiant good news among us, so that we can move beyond fear, shame, and stigma and lean into our callings to be messengers of fearless joy. On this and every silent night, as we look toward the dawn of redeeming grace, we pray. Amen. Freedom Song Music: “Alleluia” by Jerry Sinclair Offered by: Lynice Pinkard and Erica Powell Wrencher…
December 16
What I am sitting with in my spirit and feeling in my bones this Advent is somewhere, everywhere, oppressed, enslaved, traumatized people are practicing freedom. Somewhere, everywhere, throughout all of time, amidst lives stolen and worlds crumbling, people and communities reflect “our intentional relationship to divine change in apocalyptic circumstances” (from Foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Practicing New…
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.
Be the Church – Even Now, God Is Still Speaking!
…loving partnerships, LGBTQIA communities. We must work to advance relationships with global organizations and ecumenical communities with track records of working towards pressuring their governments to end the war in Israel-Palestine, restore peace, and cease from projects of ethnocide and displacement in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and other places where God’s people are being threatened and removed forcibly from their land….