Much of what Black liberation history has taught us is that there can be no peace without justice. This is why the Ferguson uprisings and many thereafter gave us the chant “No justice, no peace.” We have a biblical model in the prophetic announcements of Jesus. As God sends a Savior, that Savior is meant to be the “Prince of Peace”, who establishes a government which puts an end to all that threatens the most vulnerable.
Read Morehope will make it’s home within us even as you work to build a world that feels more like home for all God’s children.
Read MoreGod’s word draws us close to the divine, to each other, for the sake of spiritual well-being. The Bible is meant to reveal connections between where we are right now, where humanity has come from, and where we are going. All of our histories, and all of our yearnings tell us that we are headed for freedom.
Read MoreGod’s lawgiving is an act of love. It follows then, that human government in its best and highest form, should be a reflection of God’s purposeful law giving.
Read MoreGod created all things on earth as connected with each other! All humans have a very special, important connection to each other and to the earth. One of the ways that we can study and remember that connection is to resist any idea or force that tells us we are not connected to one another, or to the earth.
Read MoreAll people have a beginning somewhere. All power has an origin story.
Read MorePentecost reminds us not only that we have a God who reaches out to help us communicate with each other, God reaches out to show us that we can communicate with each other DIFFERENTLY.
Read MoreBlack and Melanesian collective liberating consciousness might seem new to many non-Pasifika people but it is old hat to the generations who live it.
Read MoreWhat is the story of Ascension Day? How do we celebrate the spirit of rising up in a time and place of so many being crushed to the ground? Malcolm X Day, May 19th, is also the birthday of Yuri Kochiyama.
Read MoreThis Mother’s Day, we remember the love of the Black and gold women who were made mamas by various situations. Japanese women holding their families together during the Internment Camps. Bill Withers musical tribute to his grandmother helps us know and honor the hand of God.
Read MoreBlack and Gold solidarity has meaning for our reflections this month. From HER representing Black x Filipino solidarity, to remembering Gloria Richardson’s birthday, and surfacing the crucial narratives that amplify every part of AANHPI month. This expansive term is a very broad task to take up - just like the story of the Savior who was lifted up to draw ALL of us in all our identities to God.
Read MoreRemembering this week that there is Black life in the future, and we are worthy of seeing both.
Read MorePicture the places we long to live in. What designs are there? What is calling to us from our visions of new life in places where life has seemed not worth the plans to make things new. God’s plans are always in place, always available.
Read MoreApril is Jazz Appreciation Month. Wynton Marsalis said “Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It’s conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.” We remember the artists and ancestors who participate in life giving through time.
Read MoreMaking it our mission to bring peace, through protection, renewal, health and rest of Black bodies, through education, training, advocacy and the creative arts. That we would to act, individually and collectively, to address historical inequities, and demand lasting, sustainable change.
Read MoreWe are in search of a Palm Sunday processional that does not end in a funeral. So we pray in the words of Rev. Howard Thurman, Rev. Dr. King and Mother Maya today.
Read MoreWe mark the holy season of Ramadan and honor our beloved neighbors in this Abrahamic faith by joining their prayers, and connecting in the Lenten fast. During Ramadan, most Muslim people fast from food and water from sunrise to sunset. Ramadan revives the sense of community and strengthens bonds and friendships.
Read MoreThis week’s scriptures are all from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. And our history highlight this week is a departure from Women’s History Month to hold space for a sacred Saint’s Day for Bayard Rustin.
Read MoreMargaret Murray Washington and Anna Murray Douglass (no relation) are the focus of this Women’s History Month Remembrance. Just like the persistent woman who is the focus of our scripture readings this week, they refused to give up. They refused to sit and watch injustice threaten and destroy our people.
Read MoreThis week’s learning is to rejoice. Our reflection time is spent in fellowship with other lectionaries and devotionals that address serious issues which are close to our heart and so critical for our well being. Remembering Claudette Colvin’s resistance, meditating on her story her words.
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