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PC(USA)
Facing Racism
https://facing-racism.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/facing_racism/facing-racism-study-guide.pdf
Things White Folks Can Do
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-31/black-owned-restaurants-in-los-angeles?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+-+What+You+Missed+ +0606&utm_term=Read+more+Block+2&utm_id=7931&sfmc_id=1566971
https://parade.com/1045096/jessicasager/how-to-be-anti-racist/
Doing the Inner Work:
Layla Saad, “Doing the Inner Work of Dismantling White Supremacy”
Kikanza Nuri-Robins, “Fish Out of Water”
Realize that being “woke” is not a trend:
https://blavity.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke?category1=opinion
Words must be backed by actions:
Call out but don’t take up excess space:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/
White Supremacy = A White Problem. Organize white People:
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/anti-racism-workshops-classes/
Empower other by risking power:
https://www.1953movement.com/ideas-on-power-sharing/
Reading against racism reading list:
'White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide' by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander
'How to Be an Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi
'Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century' by Monique W. Morris
'The Invention of the White Race' by Theodore W. Allen
'Between the World and Me' by Ta-Nehisi Coates
'Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II'
by Douglas A. Blackmon
'Choke Hold: Policing Black Me' by Paul Butler
'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' by Robin DiAngelo
'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine
'Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America' by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
'So You Want to Talk About Race' by Ijeoma Oluo
'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America' by Moustafa Bayoumi
'Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America' by Michael Eric Dyson
'The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America' by Richard Rothstein
'The History of White People' by Nell Irvin Painter
'They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement' by Wesley Lowery
daily bible studies
National Council of Churches
Pastoral Prayer for
Sunday, March 22, 2020
From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snowcapped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight*
Holy One, during this time of social distancing and sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
remind us that we are still connected to one another. We pray for those impacted by travel bans, those
unable to connect with loved ones, those who have insurance, those who do not, those who are getting
treatment, and all those who cannot get a hospital bed. God of all, to you we pray. . .
We pray for all of us, who are anxious and afraid. Remind us that we are infinitely connected to you, and
we can come to you in prayer at any time, in any setting. And we pray for those who think this is all a
hoax, or those who for what ever reason just think this is a big joke. God of all, to you we pray. . .
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It’s the voice of hope
It’s the voice of peace
It’s the voice of every soul
Help us to be the Body of Christ that you call us to be in this moment. May we be your hands and feet
right now, in neighborhoods, farms and small towns, hospitals and clinics, tribes and large cities as we
work to safely feed each other, heal each other, look out for each other, and act as your instruments in
this ailing world. Be with the very young, the school-age children as they watch this world around them.
Guide the healers on each continent, in each country, in each city around the globe, and be with them
and each of us as we struggle to navigate new things in new ways. Sustain the researchers, virologists,
laboratories and medical transport teams. God of all, to you we pray. . .
From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease
No hungry mouths to feed
All economies around the world have been terribly affected over these past months. We pray for each
of the ways it is impacting the small business owners, investors, our elderly, our homeless, the middle
class, all of us in vastly varied ways. May we rebuild together without rank of who is worthiest, but,
instead, guided by your light and filled with your love, stronger than we can imagine. God of all, to you
we pray. . .
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band
Playing songs of hope
Playing songs of peace
They are the songs of every soul
May we hear your songs of hope ringing from the balconies of Italy. May we hear your songs of a
common band like the Lummi Nation in the US Pacific Northwest as they have planned for months to
protect their members. May we hear your songs of peace in the “caremongers” of Canada who out of
kindness, not fear, have created online groups searching out need (#iso) and/or providing help (#offer).
May we know that these are the songs of all of us, your beloved children. God of all, to you we pray. . .
God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
May God watch over us, and may we watch over one another, from a distance.
Amen.
*Excerpts taken from From a Distance (Written by Julie Gold, sung by Bette Midler)
Source: World News this Week in Prayer
Seeing and Believing