Hello friends, readers, and fellow prayer-pray-ers. In honor of Juneteenth today, I’d like to call your attention to a few items of interest and invite you into ongoing solidarity, work, and prayer for Black people’s liberation.
This article from Dr. Christena Cleveland, “Juneteenth is a Spirituality,” is available via her Patreon. Read her writing regularly for your education, especially if you are a non-Black person.
Read this article from Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty 2017 fellow Kathryn Freeman: Juneteenth and the Promise of Religious Freedom. “Juneteenth is the day the nation our Framers envisioned was born…”
Read this article, “Continued Anti-racism with Liberty and Justice for All Black Lives” from my friend Brittany Graves. Don’t leave out her powerful spoken word piece linked in the article.
Pray along with Rev. Babette Chatman: “As we enter this Juneteenth holiday celebration let us remember all of our ancestors who longed to see this day come.”
Join tomorrow’s digital gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, a Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, tomorrow June 20.
And finally, I wrote “Litany for Liberation” in honor of Juneteenth last year.
Happy Juneteenth. May we work and pray for the freedom and thriving of all humans, especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous humans; and understand our Oneness and the ways our collective liberation is bound up with one another’s.
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