***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