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The Psalms Summoned Something
By Tommy Airey
In the lead up to the election, I’ve been soaking my soul in the Psalms. I’ve found these Hebrew resistance songs profoundly relevant. They are rearranging my soul with both agony and ecstasy, two feelings foreign to most white folk like me. In hard seasons like this, I tend to get stuck in my head—and then head for the hills. However, these ancient, heart-wrenching words lend me the language to stay present and tend what is buried deep within me.
Continue reading “The Psalms Summoned Something”4 Thoughts on Hope and Resistance
Note: This is part of a series of short posts, in the lead-up to the election, from leaders reflecting on hope and/or resistance.
By Marcia Lee
Thought #1
Lately I’ve been wondering if I’m doing enough. With everything that is happening in our world, am I causing more harm but not doing enough or not doing the ‘right’ things with my time? I definitely needed to make that pumpkin bread this morning instead of calling people for the election or checking in on someone, right? Maybe…maybe not. But one thing that does give me hope is the reminder that: i will never be enough. No matter what I do, or not do, my contribution is not enough. However, our contribution, when we mix and flow together, each of us, in our small and large ways, we are enough. What I do or do not do, may not be the thing that changes the world, but if I do something and you do something, our somethings combined might, just might be enough. Thank you for doing your something to make a more just and compassionate world. I am grateful for you.
Continue reading “4 Thoughts on Hope and Resistance”Advent is coming
By Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
While fires still rage in our forests and our streets, it is time to start looking towards that season when we slow our bodies down, when we welcome in the darkness, when a single flame is enough. While the work of resistance never ceases, Advent is the liturgical season where we find more time for the quiet, waiting hours to prepare our hearts. Prepare our lives for the transformative power of story and its ability to turn the powers that be upside down. It is time.
Geez is Throwing a Party!
Dear friends,
With the arrival of Autumn, our once long and golden evenings are now replaced with early darkness. The unknowns of the pandemic, political outrage, and fragile social fabrics all feel parallel to this loss of light. Reading Geez 58: Breath & Bone has brought unexpected comfort. There is space for communal mourning in the face of darkness and reminders of the new life that only death can bring.
I have been fortunate to recently join the team at Geez magazine, where we have been reimagining connection amidst a global pandemic. During our conversations, Geez editor Lydia asked, “What do people need right now?”
Sure, you may need a cup of coffee or a quick trip to the bathroom – but what do you need to face the darkness in the coming weeks? Perhaps, like me, you feel the need for a togetherness that spans living rooms and borders.
Online Release Party — Geez 58 on Death and Dying
Prayer for Mr. Trump, the human being.
By Bill-Wylie-Kellermann
O Wind of Spirit who moved across the face of chaos,
breathing life into creation and humanity.
Heal this man, afflicted in his presidency,
from the very illness he has unleashed in mockery.
Defend him from the Power of Death by which he is so enthralled
and so embraced, as to set it upon countless others
whom we pray you protect as well.
For the time and sake of mercy,
withhold the wrath of your judgement and bring him instead
into the fullness of his humanity, painful though it be.
When his breath comes easy and he wakes, may truth dawn upon him like a bolt.
Radical Zoom Encounters
We are getting flooded with some profound Zoom webinar offerings in the lead-up to the election. Here’s a short list of dates and links that you may be interested in. Please feel free to post others in the comments section!
CRC Allies and Accomplices is presenting Defeating White Nationalism: 2020 Election Edition! on Tuesday, September 29 from 5-7pmPDT.
Since our last webinar just 2 months ago, we’ve witnessed the rapid escalation of white nationalist attacks on our communities, from the grassroots to the highest office in the United States. This movement isn’t new, but it is taking new forms. As anti-racist white people, we believe it’s our responsibility to defeat this movement.
Continue reading “Radical Zoom Encounters”Community Acts of Remembering and Resistance
By Susie Henderson. This article first appeared in Geez magazine Issue 58, Fall 2020, Breath & Bone.
Beyond the borders of church, communities are crafting practices of remembering on their own terms.
What I have learned about mourning in the streets has prompted me to dig deeper into my Christian roots, pulling forward ways of caring for, and remembering, the dead that have been covered over with weeds. These liturgies in public space have reinforced my understanding of liturgy in its original terms – work of the people.
Continue reading “Community Acts of Remembering and Resistance”With Her Tears
From Denver-based poet, pastor and teacher Dale Carl Fredrickson.
The Sandbox Revolution: Raising Kids for a Just World
By Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
Radical Discipleship friends,
I wanted to share some exciting news! For the past year and a half, I have been working on pulling together a beautiful anthology that will soon be a very real book! It’s called The Sandbox Revolution: Raising Kids for a Just World. It is being published by Broadleaf books and will be released March 30, 2021.
I began this book as a most selfish of projects as a parent overwhelmed and tired and searching for communities raising kids in these unbelievable times with a passion for justice. The contributors in this book are all ones I love dearly. They have been mentors, friends, co-conspirators, and kindred spirits.
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