To further our Lenten theme, Love At The Center, we invite you on a journey toward racial justice. Each week we will provide readings, videos, and prayers to help you explore your feelings, understandings and knowledge about your role in moving toward racial justice in our church community and beyond. Please choose which resources you feel are most helpful to you. Each devotional begins with "Words to Ponder" and ends with a prayer. We hope each weekly reflection provides a depth of rich resources for you to choose from.
Today’s Words to Ponder:
"It’s so easy to see where we swim against the current and so much harder to see where we move with the current. And for me, that’s the richest place, because I’ve spent my life noticing the injustices I’ve experienced, but I was very far in life until I started to notice, what injustice have I perpetuated, and how have I benefited?"
~ Robin DiAngelo
Today our anti-racism deepening work invites us into a space of listening, learning and seeing...
First, we invite you to settle in and watch/listen to this TED Talk given by Camara Jones titled "Allegories on Race and Racism".
You are also invited to listen to THIS episode of On Being with Krista Tippett
Minneapolis-based trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem joins Robin DiAngelo, the author of White Fragility in this segment. "Hearing the two of them together is electric — the deepest of dives into the calling of our lifetimes."
You are invited to reflect on the chart above that provides a visual on White Supremacy Culture and where in our society it has become socially acceptable. We realize that you might feel overwhelmed by this chart. You may even disagree, or feel angry about what you see and read. If that is happening please feel INVITED to email us about those feelings (hillsrjwg@gmail.com)! If there are terms on this chart you don’t know we suggest looking them up. mahttps://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.htmlnages our world.
Prayer For Today :
God, help me listen, learn and see things that I didn’t know or
see before.
Amen.
