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What stories are waiting for us to begin them? What stories need to end? Spiritual practice is our commitment, as we seek to become better stewards of the earth, and honor the people who lay claims to the lands we call home.

Learn more about how health and well-being are directly connected to the way democracy works on these stolen lands, experience the long historical treasure hunt for Afro Indigenous music of Brazil. Pray with the plants God has given us on this planet, and center yourselves in the simple solutions that a letter to the Philippians provides to us all.

The Liberation Lectionary calendar begins with the beginning, the story of Creation. Always timely, the story of God making the world is a reminder to us of how deeply and truly God loves the world that Jesus entered into. For the next few weeks, we will journey through the stories of Native peoples, under the themes of Creation and Stewardship.

Finding healing in Black heritage and the medicine of memory in the stories of faith-filled figures. How can healing become our focus? From following the God in whom all freedom is formed. Let our hopes for renewal begin and end in knowing the one who knows us best.

Beyond land back. This is our journey as we prepare for Indigenous People’s Day. How would liberation and renewal look for the people impacted by Columbus, by Ponce de Leon; all the people who claimed to be explorers, and all the people responsible for their platform, power and influence.

Celebrating Fannie Lou Hamer, our Lady of Singing through the Struggle, and the Matriarch of Movement in Mississippi. Joining other voices in remembrance, supplication, and lament. The world is in uproar, we need renewal.

Praying with the learners and leaders of liberation theology this week. Renewal comes in many forms. even through hard trials. We believe that the God who is preparing a place of peace for us, is also the God who cares about every struggle we face on the way.

Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and beyond. We are so thankful for the beauty of African descent among the Latin and Hispanic diasporas. We pray that our wildest dreams will be worthy of our ancestors, that the world we leave our future generations will make them rise up and call us blessed. Prayers joined with the Black beloved in Mississippi, and solidarity with the Uprisings in Iran.

The more we try to build a better world, the more we realize how hard it is to find tools that have not been tainted. With all of the conversation around colonizing, massacre and monarchy, we believe this season is an opportunity for us to look inward, to understand our theologies as works in progress. We are answering the call of our ancestors to follow God, not just anyone who claims to know Them.

Remembering the Labor Movement and looking to Jesus as our example of rest. There is so much space for joy in rest, we might experience some gladness even as we labor for the sake of laying our burdens down.

Meditating to Nikki Giovanni’s Journey, and memory laning Mississippi’s “Brand New Life”. Renewal Season is a time for us to redefine and revisit the differences between repair, revision, and renewal. Blackness is fully owed.

Black August meant study, fast, train, fight. We are committing to the aspiration work of building a world where systems protect and enrich our lives rather than cause us to die. Sitting at the feet of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, reading through the promises of God through the Prophet Isaiah.

Remembering the day that George Jackson was assassinated in 1971, praying with our Muslim friends, meditating through music, and holding the principles of Black August as part of our spiritual practice.

As we study and train, we discover the need to be grounded in purpose for the work, so that no matter the challenge or success, we can hold on to the reason for our struggle and the eventuality we are striving toward.

This season brings us closer to community as a way to abolish carceral systems. Abolition is a gift! Come upack the origins and principles of Black August, daily readings from Isaiah, and the power music of a Black August playlist.

We have not celebrated Disability Pride Month together as a community before, so we wanted to do our research, and as we did, we read through some troubling information from many reports. Closing out this month of much learning and appreciation and looking ahead to the Black August focus of abolishing carceral living, we are reflecting and lamenting the incarceration of disabled loved ones.

Disability and discrimination are in our conversation today. We are reading from Romans 12 this week, acknowledge the upcoming anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and listen to the sounds of Stevie Wonder imagining a more inclusive world.

This month’s Freedom Season is also Disability Pride Month. This week we are honoring the diverse bodies of God’s church that include the disabled beloved, and praying with the freedom fighters Assata, Ida and Philando in celebrating a divine dignity which cannot be denied.

July is Disability Pride Month and we are honoring, celebrating and confessing through that lens during the Lectionary’s Freedom Season. This week we also remember the founding of Action St. Louis, July 2016.