“We need a million experiments.
A bunch will fail.
That’s good because we’ll have learned a lot that we can apply to the next ones.”
~ Abolitionist organizer and educator, Mariame Kaba
Fumbling our way into collective liberation – an abolitionist world where we address harm with care and abundance rather than cops, courts and cages – is messy, transformative, achingly beautiful, shared work. Every last one of us has a part to play and none of us will be the same as we lean in for the journey.
What gritty wisdom and sustaining nourishment can the lectionary texts from Exodus (August 23 – October 18) offer us and our communities as we engage in our share of these “million experiments” God calls us to participate in?
Though created with white Christians in mind, the resources we’ll provide in this series are for everyone who is curious about ways of approaching these stories with an abolitionist imagination. Sign up if this is you!
Resources will include:
- New weekly podcasts on each gospel text, featuring members of the Liberating Lineages Collective (remember “The Word Is Resistance?” If you’re still subscribed, the new episodes will come right to you!);
- Exclusive tidbits and prompts for text interpretation from our Collective members;
- Weekly worship resources, including common liturgical elements and creative rituals
- Links to past “The Word Is Resistance” podcasts on these texts;
- Music, visual art, and quotes/poems
- And more!
Also note, if you’ve decided to focus on the Matthew or Romans passages during this lectionary season, you can find past podcasts on these texts here.
As always, our text work will be rooted in collective liberation and committed to dismantling fascist/imperialist, antisemitic, white supremacist, and other harmful readings of these stories.
