I wanted to take a break from the updates from PDX for a day and do something different. Lets be entirely honest with one another. You are probably surveying the world, and are confused and baffled. I know I am. Many of you are in religious settings and you are staring at the demon white supremacy square in the eye. Some of you this started the moment George Floyd called out for his Momma.
God is George’s Momma too.
The dying prayers of the oppressed can move nations, change hearts, offer sight, and at the end of the day shift us. Shift whole world and nations of peoples.
Is there a more pure prayer then “Momma” ?
As the people of God I have to believe that same God is mobilizing you each in your own way to the great task of this generation.
Dismantling white supremacy and our collective liberation, which is God’s salvation made incarnate.
If this is your first time stepping onto the battlefield for the soul of this weary land, welcome.
So for the next 24 hours in the comments I will answer any questions I can, or recommend resources, around this great undertaking, with hopes Jesus meets us there.
*also still no copy editor schedule set up. Mostly my fault not the person I’m working with. I’m used to the speed of Twitter interactions. So the emails are wonky and honestly grammatical nightmares. But I have been busy. Speaking main stage at the Moth tonight :)
Thanks for taking our questions! What resources do you have to suggest for a church/worship team to help them "deconstruct and decolonize the symbols we use in worship" (to quote from Dear Church). Looking forward to your installation on Sunday. Blessings and glad the Spirit sent you to Vancouver!
There is so much to be concerned with these days, racism, children at our border in cages, sex trafficking, politics, climate change, misogyny, hunger and poverty and so much more. I've voted my conscience, helped with money and worked at events. But now (probably because of the pandemic), I have the time to look away from my own busy life and realize that I can do more, and I should do more and I need to do more. So my question is this, is there one area to focus in where if the biggest change was made it would have a domino effect on some of the other problems in this world? I appreciate your time for answering this question.