🌿Friends, if it was 1963, would you be marching for equality alongside Dr. King? Would you be protesting with peaceful statements of love and support for our marginalized sisters and brothers? Would you lift up your voice in the chorus for change? Would you lower or silence your voice in order to actively spotlighting Black voices, LGBTQ+ voices, poor voices, female voices, immigrant voices, marginalized voices, instead of your own? Would you listen? ❤️
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Today, now, in 2021, your loving voice is needed in the movement for inclusion and equality in the Church, and across our country. In what small and big ways can you become an ally?
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In my modest experience as an “ally-in-training,” I find that a good place to begin is to listen and learn. Reading, tuning into a podcast, or listening to sermons and workshops by people of color increases my awareness and moves my heart.
Right now I’m reading “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by Austin Channing Brown (Convergent Books). Her memoir about life as a Black, Christian woman in America is powerful, inspiring, and informative.
On this day, we remember Rev. Dr. MLK Jr., and also lean into his teaching.
Thank you for your words, courage, and acts of non-violent protest, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to move our country (and indeed our whole world) towards better love and full equality.
“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.”
-Rev. Dr. MLK Jr., “I Have A Dream”
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