Join Rev. Drew Bongiovanni as she explores the annunciation text in the gospel of Luke for our series on advent. How is confession and repentance part of advent? How do we build love up inside ourselves to counter the culture of whiteness? How does Mary show us the way?

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

"If Advent is about anything, it’s about the heartbreaking longing in the midst of despair because of oppression. It’s about looking at the world and longing for something different, something *better* than the violence of Babylon, or of Rome, or of the US."

Join Rev. Anne Dunlap for this week's episode in the #AbolitionAdvent series.

Transcript available here:

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

What if COVID-19 is our King Cyrus, inviting us out on that highway back home to right relationship with sacred land, our God, and each other? What is the cost of our return, and how do we begin to pay it?

Buckle up; according to Nichola Torbett, "It's demolition time."

Transcript available here: www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html

This is the first week of Advent, and we join with Isaiah and Jesus in asking God to intervene in our world for justice and flourishing.

Transcript here:

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

How does white supremacy cloud our usual readings of the parable about the sheep and the goats? What are we to make of this idea of Christ as a ruler on a throne passing judgement? What sustenance might this parable give us for the marathon effort of holding president-elect Joe Biden accountable to the people? And what does all of this have to do with Christmas pudding?

To find out, join Nichola Torbett for this week's episode of The Word Is Resistance!

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

Voices from the past can call us forward. Joshua tried to do that: with clarity and singularity of purpose. White people on this journey to freedom need to be clear and grounded too. Who invited you to antiracist collection action? Who are you calling in? Rev. Will Green reminds us this is a good time to return to our core truths and to grow this movement.

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

We're at a river crossing time, transitioning into new territory and work ahead. Rev. Claire Brown reminds us we can take hope in the knowledge that God is with us, and that God's people have been here before.

Check out the transcript at showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast

We are in a time of much dying. How do we navigate it? What does it mean to get free of Egypt in such a time as this? Join Nichola Torbett in exploring these questions with help from the story of the death of Moses just outside the Promised Land.

Transcript available here:

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

"What do we do when everything falls apart?

When stress and fear and uncertainty are running high?

What happens then?

Do we pull farther apart,

Isolating ourselves away,

Or do we do something else?"

In this take on Exodus 33:12-23, the tail end of the book of Exodus, Rev Anne Dunlap takes us on a journey with the people and Moses as they come into more vulnerable relationship with a God that shows up right among them, dwelling in a movable tent - not just on a mountaintop. What does intimacy in our covenants with each other, and with God, have to do with abolishing police and building community safety for all?

Get the Community Safety for All Toolkit here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/community-safety-for-all-toolkit/

Transcript available here:

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

The kingdom of heaven is like a wedding banquet. All are invited. You are invited. But not everyone honors the invitation. Some actively mock it. Some try to violently crush those who throw it. Good news: There is an end date to this evil. Hard news: we white folks especially don't know exactly how to feel about evil (white supremacy, etc) getting its comeuppance.

In this episode, Rev. Seth Wispelwey walks through a challenging text with some challenging, necessary words from Black Christians on this moment we find ourselves in, and where we are called to locate ourselves at the wedding party that dismantles evil systems and celebrates God's invitation to liberation and love for all...while letting God be God. And yes, we are discussing how the COVID pandemic plays into all of this.

Guiding scripture: Matthew 22.1-14.

Transcript can be found here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html