“The very location and circumstance of Christ’s birth was a symbol and sign of God’s solidarity with the socially oppressed and outcast.”
-Drew G.I. Hart
@DruHart#Christmas
“Any gospel that does not speak to the issue of enslavement and injustice and inequality ... that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free ... is not the gospel.”
-Rev. Tom Skinner (1970)
Let's not play personal and systemic sin--racism, e.g.--against each other! Sin is embedded in shared practices, public institutions, & cultural moods AND it occupies and poisons individual hearts. Sin within echoes the sin without; sin without is enlivened by the sin within.
"Rage is the public cry for black dignity. It becomes the public expression of a theological truth that black lives matter to God." https://t.co/WeuS7eKBBn via @sojourners
#ProtectBlackFutures exists to connect pandemic response campaigns rooted in racial equity. Here are some ways you can JOIN in solidarity:
LIST - orgs and individuals working to #ProtectBlackFutures
GIVE- Donate to as many as you can
TAG- invite your friends to do the same.
In light of the current situation with COVID-19, City Pres is suspending our Sunday morning worship services for tomorrow March 15 and the following Sunday March 22. We desire to love and serve our city and we want to… https://t.co/5hVYLip2ZE
Yesterday morning’s rehearsal
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Here is the Doxology (in Dakota) & Father Let Your Kingdom Come
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Ateyapi, Cinhintku kin,
Qa Woniya Wakan kin He,
Wakantanka wanjina kin,
He wowitan yuha… https://t.co/ZjP323tFBP
@JemarTisby’s 10 min presentation “Reconciliation and Justice: Are They Friends or Enemies?” is gold! What Tisby says is why we chose to have “Racial Justice and Solidarity” as a core value verses “Racial Reconciliation.’ #racialjustice#passthemic https://t.co/srhAr62R9M