"I can't think about the Magnificat this week without thinking about Jakelin." Rev. Anne Dunlap says that Mother Mary's revolutionary song, the "Magnificat," describes a world safe for children, including her own, and including children like Jakelin Caal Maquin, the 7 year old Maya Q'eqchi girl who died in US border patrol custody this month.

Take action to investigate Jakelin's death here:

http://www.justiceforjakelin.org/

Transcript with other resources etc. is here:

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

Rev. Will Green reads *against* the story of John the Baptist in Luke 3 to offer tools for white folks deepening our activism, and draws connections to immigration and the migrant caravan as well.

Transcript is available here:

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

Can we find the courage to allow those things to collapse that must collapse in order for white supremacy and patriarchy to die?

In this episode, Nichola Torbett explores what our apocalyptic Advent text for this week has to teach us about radical letting go.

Find the transcript here:

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

The transcript with action links and references can be found here:

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

In this week's podcast, Rev. Anne Dunlap takes on the mash-up of "Christ the King" Sunday and the national "Thanksgiving" holiday that fall within days of each other. How do we as white Christians start to reckon with 2 traditions that have caused so much harm?

The transcript with action links and references can be found here:

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

This week Haven Herrin reflects on how the stories of Hannah and her child Samuel might offer white people tools for dismantling white supremacy and white privilege.

The transcript with action links can be found here:

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

Amidst the pain and grief of white supremacist attacks on Jewish people, black people, and trans and non-binary people, we are reminded that we still have the power of choice: To choose to resist, to welcome, to seek liberation.

For all those murdered in the past two weeks, may their memories be a blessing. Transcripts with links to the actions can be found at: www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html.

Whiteness would have us avoid the situations, people and realities that the gospel calls us to engage. When there is conflict between whiteness and the call from God (as there always is), white people need to question and ultimately reject whiteness. This week's readings from Isaiah 53 and Mark 10 are good resources for such reflection. Also, BAIL EVERYONE OUT OF JAIL!

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

How can we make good use of the deepening crisis in the United States as Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court? Can this actually serve God's love and justice? In this episode, Job joins Christine Blasey Ford and others undergoing unearned suffering to point the way.

Transcripts with links to the actions can be found at:

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

Haven Herrin takes on the story of Job and makes connections to the violent legacy of columbus and how sexual violence is a tool of colonization. "Racial violence, sexual violence, and the violence of colonization are intrinsically bound."

Transcripts with links to the actions can be found at:

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

The week Rev. Anne Dunlap works through the story of Esther and how power is used for both domination and resistance. Vashti and Esther's powerful "NO" is a prophetic vision of a different world from the one they live in. They prompt us to ask ourselves, "what is our resistance for, anyway? For better access to domination? Or for building up a

whole new world?"

The transcript, with action links supporting local, grassroots recovery efforts in North Carolina and Lawrence, MA, can be found at:

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