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The SSING Network, New Disabled South, Highlander Center, and The Black Joy Experience with BYP100
#BlackAugust #AgapeLove #FreedomChurchOfThePoor #LiberationTheology #RadicalLove #BelovedCommunity
Join us tonight for our the Freedom Church of the Poor worship service at 6pm EST.
The theme “Learn As We Lead: Lessons from The Margins.”
On Facebook life:
https://www.facebook.com/povertyinitiative
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In this week's newsletter, I follow my theme of the month talking about the Freedom Church of the Poor and the @UniteThePoor and where the "five interlocking evils" come in to their analysis.
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Join us this evening for a special Dia de los Muertos and All Saints Day service with the Freedom Church of the Poor.
/cc @Kairos_Center #freedomchurchofthepoor
www.facebook.com/povertyinitiative/videos...
What I am getting at here is: is there any legitimate connection between early Quakers & their particular theology and practice given their context & social positions to the Freedom Church of the Poor today?
How can we understand early Qs in light of the #FreedomChurchofThePoor
"Those bruised and battered deserve beautiful things.”
- @liztheo
/cc @Kairos_Center #FreedomChurchofthePoor
“Solidarity forever feels a lot like praying - Amen!"
-Jacob Butterly /cc @Kairos_Center #FreedomChurchofthePoor
“We will not stand for this. We are the people and we are mobilizing--in the Valley, “We mourn the dead. And we fight like hell for the living.’”
Part of the community response Rev. Savina Martin and I shared this evening for our consecration service.
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Other special thanks, mentions, and article links to:
@Roamfu
@SoulforceOrg
@Sojourners
@phoebe_bridgers
@PeggySenger (for a ht)
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Thanks for reading this week's...
We want a (new) world that is actually rooted in our rest.
-Katrina Battle BLM Vermont)
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These rules (Ten Commandments) are meant for our good. As long as we don't allow them to be co-opted to be used against our liberation.
-Katrina Battle (BLM Vermont)
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The Ten Commandments were given as lessons for how to create an alternative society that will not become like the empire the people were just freed from.
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