word is resistance

This week, John Bergen interviews Betsy Morgan about her experience organizing her congregation in the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and how abundance shows up in our relationships.

TWIR 7.29.18 Abundance Shows Up

We are descendants of a lineage of people using what privilege they had to take on an unjust system, whether through advocacy, direct action, or revolution. Here, in this moment, and in the place where you are, what will you do?

Transcript with action links available here:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

TWIR 9.9.18 What Will You Do?

Amidst the pain and grief of white supremacist attacks on Jewish people, black people, and trans and non-binary people, we are reminded that we still have the power of choice: To choose to resist, to welcome, to seek liberation. 

For all those murdered in the past two weeks, may their memories be a blessing. Transcripts with links to the actions can be found at: www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html.

TWIR 11.4.18 We Are Here

"All the people means ALL the people."  Rev. Anne Dunlap reflects on Nehemiah 8 (no really!)and Luke 4 as invitations to keep expanding our imaginations about what it means to be human, what it means to be free, and what "all the people" can really mean.

Action link to support folks impacted by the government shutdown:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N7vhcF7syIOv7vR4EZ5w1G7NzdRm9SVRJ8pplu_x3qc/edit?usp=sharing 

Transcript here:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html

TWIR 1.27.19 Imagine, ALL the People

A critique of Psalm 71 and making "emergency calls to God". Also, turning to the gospel reading from Luke 4, don't worry about being a badass. Organize instead.

TWIR 2.3.19 Psalm 71 and calling 9-1-1

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.