This week's lectionary readings are the proclamation of God's commandments, a way of understanding justice that claims a transformation of our whole selves and community. In this episode, the Rev. Claire Brown asks, how do we connect our soul work and our social action in light of these texts?

Find the full transcript here:
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

TWIR 2.16.20 Transformation, Not Compliance

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.