Meditation on weakness & strength, love & reconciliation: many members, one body. Theme from 1 & 2 Corinthians.
As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail; it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue.[…]
RACIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & DATES to NOTE:
Wed, Sept 23 – Oct 28: Courageous Conversations: Racial Justice (6-week series)8am & 5:30pm, Wed, Sept 23 – Oct 28 RSVP to jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org 6-week series using peer-reviewed curriculum Zoom Link available by RSVP. Sun, Oct 4: Racial Justice Advocacy & Learning Group7pm – Zoom. October’s topic – Politics of Language We will strive for first Sunday[…]
Resources to educate & engage about racial justice
RESOURCESBelow are some resources focused on education and engagement around racial justice. Use what you find helpful. What is happening in this nation is complicated, and cannot be simplified into absolutes, binary/dualistic categories, or declarEveryday Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfVUgyEIOIations that make us only “either/or”, “good/bad”, “right/wrong”, “in/out”. Use these resources as starting points for deeper and more[…]
Reflecting on holistic choices: freedom, slavery, and fruits of the spirit from Paul’s letter to Galatians.
Allegories of slavery & freedom in sacred texts: liberating or problematic? At the end of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alludes to the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28: “There is no longer Jew or[…]