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To Advance Our Collective Understanding

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Our friends and comrades at Mennonite Action are offering a great opportunity to learn in community tomorrow night.

Don’t miss Mennonite Action’s next opportunity to be in community together — and to advance our collective understanding of the connections between antisemitism and Christian nationalism.

Join our mass call on Thursday, December 19 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT to learn more about the history of antisemitism and the rise of present day antisemitism.

We will be joined by authors, academics, and organizers to discuss how antisemitism is deeply interwoven with the far-right Christian nationalist politics of many of our country’s leaders.

We are excited to welcome the authors of Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism, Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, as well as University of Notre Dame Professor Atalia Omer. These speakers will help us think through how we can stand in solidarity with other members of our communities to push back against rising violence toward the Jewish people.

We hope to see you on our December 19 call to learn more about how we can organize against all manifestations of hate and oppression in our work for liberation in Palestine — and continue our work for the liberation of all of God’s children.

An Abiding and Rebirthing Darkness

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From our friends and comrades at Mennonite Action.

This Advent, we are remembering the activist and theologian Barbara Holmes. Over her lifetime, Dr. Holmes dedicated her prophetic voice of contemplative wisdom to call us on The Way with the Incarnate Jesus. Jesus is the one who has come, is always coming, and is ever present, transforming us into the Creator’s image and likeness.

Over the years, we have attended to Dr. Holmes’ voice crying out in the wilderness against the unspeakable suffering of human and non-human creation — suffering inflicted by human hands, heads, and hearts of warring madness. Although Dr. Holmes died earlier this year, her prophetic voice and spiritual wisdom lives on, crying out to be heard and heeded.

She writes, “When there is a crisis, it takes a village to survive” because “it is the village that enters into crisis.” In her book, Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded World, Dr. Holmes explains: “Crises open portals of deeper knowing. When the crisis occurs, the only way out is through, so we take a cue from nature and relax into the stillness, depending upon one another and the breath of life!”

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