Nichola Torbett takes on the potential power of "justification by faith" to root us in the humility and self-assurance needed to avoid white fragility and co-optation.

As always, resources for the call to action, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

Rev. Anne Dunlap takes on "Trinity Sunday" and questions why we celebrate this doctrine, meditating on the words of Dr. Vincent Harding: "Love trumps doctrine, every time."

"What I am saying is,

I am not interested in celebrating

A doctrine thrust at me

On the point of Constantine’s sword...

...I’m thinking now about how

Every time someone is baptized,

We inscribe them with doctrines

About what power is

What maleness is

What whiteness is

We re-inscribe a doctrine

Of white maleness as divinity

Every time we repeat that formula."

As always, resources for the call to action, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

Rev. Will Green joins The Word is Resistance to reflect on the second chapter of Acts from a racial justice perspective. Pentecost is more than a multicultural fair about "diversity"! It is a chance for White people to question and critique our identity, get out of the way of other conversations that need to happen and find a language that people can actually understand.

As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

Rev. Will Green joins The Word is Resistance to reflect on the second chapter of Acts from a racial justice perspective. Pentecost is more than a multicultural fair about "diversity"! It is a chance for White people to question and critique our identity, get out of the way of other conversations that need to happen and find a language that people can actually understand.

As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

www.showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast

A special episode in memory of Dr. Vincent Harding (July 25, 1931 – May 19, 2014), from the National Association of Pan African Students special service in his honor at Iliff School of Theology, 5/17/17.

Texts are:

• Psalm 46: 1-7

• Excerpts from “There Is A River” and “Remnants

"Dr. Harding,

How did you do it?

With all that you saw and lived and bore,

How were you not just angry all the time, bitter?

Dr. Harding,

How did you love us,

The magnificent mess that we are, as you liked to say,

How did you love us so much,

So much?

There is a river,

A river that moves towards freedom."

Links to learn more about Dr. Harding and Rosemarie Freeney Harding are included in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

"So here’s my question.

If Jesus is the gate,

If having life abundantly is the gate

For anyone and everyone inside the sheepfold

…and there’s no reason to believe he doesn’t mean

Anyone and everyone as in ALL of us,

Then is the letter of 1st Peter a good shepherd?

Or is it a thief and a bandit trying to climb over the back fence?"

That's the question that bugs me on this week's edition of "The Word Is Resistance," as I sat with the lectionary texts:

• Acts 2:42-47

• Psalm 23

• 1 Peter 2:19-25

• John 10:1-10

As always we offer a couple of practices for you in response to the texts.. As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

Guest Contributor Margaret Ernst offers a provocative Holy Week reflection.

"Beloveds, Kill White Jesus and maybe we can get free.

Kill White Jesus and maybe things

can be holy.

That’s why I think maybe this year we should have

a Good Friday service for White Jesus."

As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

"Palm Sunday." Why do we tell this story?

Matthew’s story this year, to be exact,

Matthew 21.

No palms, no stones crying out,

Just a procession, and some questions.

Maybe we know this by now,

That this thing we call Palm Sunday

Is actually a protest

A counter-demonstration.

But...why do we tell this story?

We offer a Holy Week spiritual practice for you in response to Palm Sunday. As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

This week we tackle the whole letter of Romans, looking at how Paul is dismantling Roman Imperial propaganda, reminding the *Roman* community members that it’s not enough to say you follow Jesus, but depend on the Empire to save you.

The lectionary texts are as follows, though the whole of the letter is covered.

• Romans 5:12-19– 3/5

• Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 – 3/12

• Romans 5:1-11 – 3/19

• Romans 8:6-11 – 3/26

We offer a couple of practices for you in response to this reading of Romans. As always, resources, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here:

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

This week we go deeper into resisting anti-Jewish oppression in Christian scriptures by looking at all four stories of encounter in John's gospel that are used over the next 4 weeks of Lent:

• John 3:1-17 (Nicodemus) – 3/12

• John 4:5-42 (Samaritan Woman) – 3/19

• John 9:1-41 (Blind Man) – 3/26

• John 11:1-45 (Mary, Martha, Lazarus) – 4/2

Resisting white supremacy also means resisting anti-Jewish oppression, too, including when it's in our sacred texts. We'll have more resources for that as well as references and copyright/permissions info in the transcript, which can be found here:

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