December 13
…self-advocacy and support. Love from my community, Peace that God would co-create this authentic life with me forever. Faithfulness bursting from the ground – I want to be known authentically. Righteousness raining from the sky – I want to be blessed. For years after, I still reach to my chest with both hands. Selah. Gratitude for this body of mine….
Racial Justice Sunday: Banned Books Blessing
…of God is dimmed. Without these books, our encounters with the amazing diversity of creation are incomplete, and our capacity for compassion across difference is stymied. Our love of God is limited because we do not have the chance to recognize all the ways the divine image is manifest in our world. We believe that banned books have a special…
All Church Read 2024: Sacred Self Care and Black Liturgies
…are inviting all of us to deepen our capacities and commitments to healing, wholeness and care through our 2024 All Church Read. We will journey with Chanequa Walker-Barnes and Cole Arthur Riley and their books Sacred Self Care and Black Liturgies to discover ways of tending ourselves while we are tending the world. Buy Sacred Self Care: Daily Practices for…
Race to the Polls: A Webinar
Almost every ballot measure and candidate policy platform have implications for racial justice because racial disparities are woven into every part of our political system and common life. No matter what your political views are, in the 2024 election we all will be making choices that either maintain the status quo of racism or create greater equity and justice. In…
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
In this powerfully told counternarrative to a typical history of the United States, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a different story of this country told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament
This dynamic equivalence translation of the Christian Scriptures imagines how these sacred texts might speak if they were being told in the tradition of Indigenous story-tellers using the practices of oral cultures
The Land Back Movement
…within the movement place the struggle within the context of dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery and the ongoing work of reparatory justice. Speakers include Katerina Gea from the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Angie Comeaux from Hummingbird Springs Farm, and Sarah Augustine who authored “The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery.” …
A Special Gift for Your Abolition Advent
As part of your Abolition Advent practice in community this season, we invite you to join the national social impact campaign for the short film All I See is the Future from our partners at Odyssey Impact. Rooted in a transformational story of abolition dreams and practice, the goal of the All I See is the Future impact campaign is…
December 10
…wilderness callings: to be voices crying out for freedom for all bodies; to be path-clearers of obstacles to your dream of ever-expanding love; to be messengers of the day of joy and delight that is surely coming for us all. Amen. Artwork: “Peace, Freedom, Solidarity” by Jessica Thornton. Used with permission CC BY-NC-ND Find more at Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative…