What do Isaiah's words of disruptive joy have to say to a weary, wounded people living through exile? How can practices of abundance sustain and renew us during seasons of heaviness in our movements? What do white folks have to gain from joining the communities most impacted by systems of oppression as they embody the new world Isaiah imagines, right there in the midst of the old one that is languishing all around us?

Join Rev. Liz Kearny for a resistance word from Isaiah 35:1-10 on this Advent Sunday of Joy.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

What kind of repentance are we being called to in order to prepare the way for love and justice to become flesh and dwell in our midst? Inspired by a workshop at Canticle Farm in Oakland, this week Dr. Sharon Fennema invites us to make connections between decolonial land tending practices, indigenous land return and John the Baptist's call to repentance. As newcomers, how can we find the ways our presence can benefit the ecosystem and discover what it looks like to practice becoming medicine?

Watch “Land Return: Return to Land” hosted by the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://youtu.be/RGhozWoSLgw

Pray with the Eco-Beatitudes by Rev. Anna Blaedel and Rev. M Jade Kaiser: https://enfleshed.com/liturgy/eco-beatitudes/

Learn more about Canticle Farm: https://canticlefarmoakland.org/

Transcript available here: surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

It's a heavy one this week! Luke takes us to the site of state execution where Jesus and two others are punished cruelly and in public. M Jade Kaiser engages the text through the onslaught of anti-trans legislation and campaigns and holds the heartache of the text in the context of Trans Day of Remembrance.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

In the wake of the 2022 mid-terms, what are we to make of this moment? And what are we to make of these lectionary selections that claim both victory and violence? Join Rev. Anne Dunlap for her post-election reflections.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

Remembering our ancestors can help us remember we are all connected to one another. Join Rev. Kelsey Beebe for this reflection on Luke 20: 27-38 and All Saints Day.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

Who deserves to participate in movements for healing and liberation? In this episode, Audrey Gale Hall wonders how Zacchaeus, the wealthy tax collector and collaborator with empire, fits into our narratives about which white people are worthy of belonging and capable of transformation.

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The parable of the Persistent Widow wraps up our series on disability justice. Join Rev. Anne Dunlap, with some wisdom from Min. Blyth Barnow, to hear how this parable can help us not lose heart in hard times.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

Register for our virtual meet-up here: https://act.surj.org/a/nov-2022-podcast-meetup

This week Rev. Anne Dunlap is joined by Sam Heath with Equal Justice USA. Enjoy their conversation about wellness, belonging, and everyone getting what they need as they reflect together on Luke 17:11-19, the healing of the ten lepers.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

Do you ever feel like you are not doing enough? Like you are not enough? in this episode, Nichola Torbett explores the ways that capitalism, ableism, and white supremacy culture encourage us to burn ourselves out in ways that, maybe not coincidentally, end up reinforcing those systems we are trying to dismantle. How does Jesus' teaching in Luke 17 offer an alternative way to 'build up a new world'?

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

What does it mean that there is an uncrossable chasm between the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16: 19-31? Join Rev. Anne Dunlap as she uncovers the many layers of this chasm to find the disability justice reading of this parable.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/