The Word As Resistance

In this week’s text from Exodus, we are still in the aftermath of the incident of the golden calf; in this story, Moses and God remind each other who they are, and Moses asks to see God, all in seeing and hearing distance of the Hebrew people. Join Collective member Rev. Anne Dunlap and guest contributor Rev. Dr. Tracy Howe as they talk about intimacy, mending relationships, and how the land helps us, as they reflect on this piece of the story that closes out our Exodus and Abolition series.

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Dive into the story of the Hebrew people and the golden calf with Rev. Liz Kearny and special guest (another Liberating Lineages Collective co-founding member!) Amelia Mae Paradise. How does this messy story invite us to take inventory of the ways our carceral society and its logics push us to throw each other away when harm happens and conflict arises? What can we learn about repair, boundaries, belonging, and shared responsibility in the situation that plays out between God, Moses, Aaron, and the people gathered at Mt. Sinai?

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On this week's podcast in the Exodus and Abolition series, we hear remixes of the 10 Commandments by M Jade Kaiser and collective member Sharon Fennema who creatively imagine what a recontextualized version of this text so often used as a weapon of white Christian nationalism might offer our abolition imaginations. What does it mean to hear these commandments always in the context of freedom from slavery as the very identity of the God who gave them?

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Our Exodus series continues with Collective member Rev. Anne Dunlap and special guest Jordan Leahy talk about dealing with the practicalities of a mixed multitude on the move. The people have continued on their journey after they pointed out a lack of food and were provided manna, quails, and provision for rest, but now they are thirsty. Now they are much farther along their journey, in a desert, and there’s no water. Can they trust this God (and God’s spokesperson Moses), or not?

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Join Rev. Liz Kearny and special guest Rev. Addie Domske as they encounter a God in Exodus 16:2-15 who tenderly responds to the Hebrew people's cry for food and sustenance with bread from heaven (and some quail!). How might we imagine God in this text as a mother, a nurturing parent, who is helping a traumatized people relearn in their bodies how to trust enoughness and rest? And what gifts can this offer us as we build up abolitionist communities grounded in consent, abundance, and healing?

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In this episode we wrestle with the story of the parting of the Red Sea, wondering how our abolition dreams hold together oppressed and oppressor in making a way toward liberation. Featuring Dr. Sharon Fennema of the Liberating Lineages Collective and Cole Parke-West of Christians for A Free Palestine and Farm Church as our guest contributor. Transcript available here: bit.ly/TWARepisodes

This week’s Exodus reading is the culmination of the Ten Plagues, the escalating contestation of power between The Divine One and Pharaoh. Join Collective member Rev. Anne Dunlap and special guest Graie Hagans as they talk about this grim final plague in which all the firstborn of Egypt not protected by the passing-over preparations are to die. What is the role of ritual as abolition practice? What does it mean that the instructions for liberation are for everyone?

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In our text for today (Exodus 3:1-15), Moses gets curious about a bush that burns, but is somehow not consumed. In this wilderness space, God calls Moses into the work of helping his enslaved Hebrew siblings get free from slavery in Egypt. Join Rev. Liz Kearny and special guest contributors Candice Baughman and Rev. Dexter Kearny of the One Parish One Prisoner program at Underground Ministries for a conversation about God’s call on each of our lives to participate in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex - a journey that begins with a bit of curiosity.

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We begin our "Exodus and Abolition" series in Exodus 1, setting the context for the unfolding of the rest of the the story by showing us the contours of what enslavement means for the Hebrew people. Into this this context of oppression, enter three stories of women resisting unjust laws and acting to preserve life. Join Dr. Sharon Fennema as she brings womanist theologian and beloved ancestor Dr. Delores Williams into the room as a co-conspirator for interpreting this text.

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In our text this week, Jesus is really going through a rough time, and he manages to offend just about everyone around him with his sharp-edged words and actions. Join Rev. Anne Dunlap, Dr. Sharon Fennema, and Rev. Liz Kearny as they listen to the outcry of the Canaanite woman in the story, and wonder together about how her actions changed Jesus from that moment on.

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