We continue in our Signposts In the Wilderness series: What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice?

In this episode, we welcome back Blyth Barnow, in conversation with Anne Dunlap, about John 3:14-21 (yes, including lots of talk about *that* verse!), shame, and what's possible when we organize our people out of love for them, rather than fear of them.

The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in our lives who can help us find the way towards greater wholeness and multiracial democracy. This Lent, we look towards each other, to the scripture, and to the live human signposts in each of our lives, to guide our path forward.

For another awesome Lenten resource this year, check out Black Lent from our friends at The Good Neighbor Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: tiny.cc/BlackLent, a Daily Devotional featuring 40 Black writers who are inspired by and embody the Black prophetic tradition.

Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

We continue in our Signposts In the Wilderness series: What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice?

In this episode, Nichola Torbett feels around in this question: How do we create in our movements the kind of heartbreaking beauty that makes dismantling white supremacy irresistible for all white Christians?

The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in our lives who can help us find the way towards greater wholeness and multiracial democracy. This Lent, we look towards each other, to the scripture, and to the live human signposts in each of our lives, to guide our path forward.

For another awesome Lenten resource this year, check out Black Lent from our friends at The Good Neighbor Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: tiny.cc/BlackLent, a Daily Devotional featuring 40 Black writers who are inspired by and embody the Black prophetic tradition.

Donate to support the work of SURJ and Soulforce: https://bit.ly/SURJSF

Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

We continue in our Signposts In the Wilderness series: What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice? In this episode, join Rev. Will Green as he ponders Psalm 22 and how we hold our pain without turning away from each other.

The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in our lives who can help us find the way towards greater wholeness and multiracial democracy. This Lent, we look towards each other, to the scripture, and to the live human signposts in each of our lives, to guide our path forward.

For another awesome Lenten resource this year, check out Black Lent from our friends at The Good Neighbor Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: tiny.cc/BlackLent, a Daily Devotional featuring 40 Black writers who are inspired by and embody the Black prophetic tradition.

Transcript available here:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

For special episodes of The Word is Resistance, listen in as podcast contributors join in self-reflection in community with each other. What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice? In this conversation, Revs. Claire Brown and Jean Jeffress reflect on Mark 1:9-15, Jesus being driven into the Wilderness.

The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in our lives who can help us find the way towards greater wholeness and multiracial democracy. This Lent, we look towards each other, to the scripture, and to the live human signposts in each of our lives, to guide our path forward.

For another awesome Lenten resource this year, check out Black Lent from our friends at The Good Neighbor Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: tiny.cc/BlackLent, a Daily Devotional featuring 40 Black writers who are inspired by and embody the Black prophetic tradition.

Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

For special episodes of The Word is Resistance, listen in as podcast contributors join in self-reflection in community with each other. What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice? For our first conversation, Rev. Anne Dunlap, Nichola Torbett, and Rev. Margaret Ernst, reflect on Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21, this years New Testament text for Ash Wednesday.

The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in our lives who can help us find the way towards greater wholeness and multiracial democracy. This Lent, we look towards each other, to the scripture, and to the live human signposts in each of our lives, to guide our path forward.

For an awesome Lenten resource this year, check out Black Lent from our friends at The Good Neighbor Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: tiny.cc/BlackLent, a Daily Devotional featuring 40 Black writers who are inspired by and embody the Black prophetic tradition.

What are we to make of Jesus coming into the middle of multiple pandemics, and taking our hand and easing our fever? Why might the urgency of healing be so deeply felt by his community? Join Rev. Anne Dunlap for her take on Mark 1:29-39.

Transcript available here:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

Rev. Margaret Ernst celebrates the Black, indigenous, and people of color-led movements and multi-racial coalitions which under Trumpian tyranny, succeeded in getting him out of office and which have put racial justice at the center of national public policy. In the spirit of that celebration and with belief in what can happen when we organize with clarity and purpose, she invites White Christians into supporting these movements for the long-haul and to align our own political strategy to stop how our identities as White Christians are weaponized to keep powers and principalities in place that hurt us all.

"Take a breath. The Good News of a world without White Christian Supremacy is real. It may seem impossible. But that’s what faith is for."

To learn more, explore the work of Political Research Associates, Catalyst Project, and SURJ's recent webinar "White Backlash" with Robin D.G. Kelly, available on SURJ's Facebook page from 1/13: https://www.facebook.com/ShowingUpForRacialJustice

Meanwhile, Take action to become a community co-sponsor of the BREATHE Act: https://breatheact.org/ and check out SURJ Faith's toolkit "Community Safety for All" at https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/community-safety-campaign.html

Join Jean Jeffress as they have no idea what to say in the wake of the attempted violent take over of the Capital. The chickens of hundreds years of white supremacist violence are coming home to roost. The love talked about in Psalm 139 is a resting place to which we need to invite our white cousins (perhaps after they are all held accountable). Did I mention they didn't know what to say?

Download the SURJ “Community Safety for All Congregational Action Toolkit” at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/community-safety-for-all-toolkit/. There will be a bit more info about it in the resource section of the transcript, which can be found here:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

In a moment of national terror hiding behind giant crosses and "Jesus 2020" banners, it is more important than ever that we articulate as clearly and open-heartedly as possible the meaning we derive from the life, ministry, and death of Jesus. In this episode, Nichola Torbett explores baptism as a an entry point to a community of solidarity that has nothing to do with triumphalism and everything to do with vulnerability and risk.

Transcript available here:

www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html

***SPOILER ALERT*** Hark! Jesus is Born!!!

After #AbolitionAdvent, Rev. Margaret Ernst shares a Christmas message for 2020: including stories of feeling shame at needing support and solidarity after loss, and reflections on something Rev. Lynice Pinkard said in a recent bible study that she can’t get out of her head: that in a world full of Empire and suffering, it’s not that God is not powerful. It’s that God needs more friends.

Our solidarity with God.

God’s solidarity with us.

Our solidarity with each other.



For a Christmas call to action, raise your voice to call for safety, and justice, for those who are incarcerated in a rapidly growing COVID-19 outbreak in Pennsylvania prisons, in a holiday season that has left so many of us isolated, but in drastically different ways. Learn more: https://www.decarceratepa.info/COVID-demands

Transcript available here:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html