As we continue into the season of Lent, join Drew Bongiovanni in exploring Exodus 17:1-7. As the Israelites face thirst and discomfort in the wilderness, how do we acknowledge the discomfort of dismantling white supremacy in our lives? Drew discusses the dynamic of scarcity for folks who hold privilege, and how Lent calls us to embrace abundance.

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

As we continue into the season of Lent, join Drew Bongiovanni in exploring Exodus 17:1-7. As the Israelites face thirst and discomfort in the wilderness, how do we acknowledge the discomfort of dismantling white supremacy in our lives? Drew discusses the dynamic of scarcity for folks who hold privilege, and how Lent calls us to embrace abundance. Transcript available here: www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html

TWIR 3.15.20 Discomfort in the Wilderness

From January 2017 to December 2023, “The Word Is Resistance” was a weekly podcast from SURJ-Faith by white anti-racist Christians based on the Christian lectionary, offering an anti-racist Word for other white Christians -- though all are welcome to check it out.  We are pleased to keep this incredible resource alive here as an ongoing resource to help us all get free.

What do our sacred texts have to teach us about living, surviving, even thriving, in the context of empire, tyranny, violence, repression - the times in which we are living today?  What do they have to teach us, as white Christians, about our role in resistance, in showing up, in liberation?  They teach us this: 

Our traditions were made for these times.  They come from these times.  So we have resources in our texts, our practices, to help us right now.  We can reclaim our stories and re-tell them to nourish our resistance against white supremacy and our work for collective liberation.

Religion & Spirituality

From January 2017 to December 2023, “The Word Is Resistance” was a weekly podcast from SURJ-Faith by white anti-racist Christians based on the Christian lectionary, offering an anti-racist Word for other white Christians -- though all are welcome to check it out. We are pleased to keep this incredible resource alive here as an ongoing resource to help us all get free. What do our sacred texts have to teach us about living, surviving, even thriving, in the context of empire, tyranny, violence, repression - the times in which we are living today? What do they have to teach us, as white Christians, about our role in resistance, in showing up, in liberation? They teach us this: Our traditions were made for these times. They come from these times. So we have resources in our texts, our practices, to help us right now. We can reclaim our stories and re-tell them to nourish our resistance against white supremacy and our work for collective liberation.

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