WHAT: An open forum engaging the community-at-large, community organizations and community leadership in healthy discussion concerning the documented incidences of police brutality involving African American women in 2015 around the United States.
WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2015, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE: First Congregational Church, 1024 Center St. North, Birmingham, AL 35204
Continue reading She Matters forum at First Congregational UCC
Presented by Black Lives Matter-Birmingham and Magic City Agriculture Project.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015, 6:30 pm at Beloved Community Church.
All people are welcome.
Thousands returned to Selma this weekend to remember God’s liberation of God’s people and to rekindle a sense of purpose and unity, to go back into the world with eyes and hearts and minds wide open to those things that stand between the people of God and the justice, mercy and abundant life promised by God
The Selma commemoration is act of remembrance, of gratitude to God and people of faith and courage. It is also an act of recommitment to be about God’s work in the world –
Bloody Sunday brought to light the American state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans and the liberating spirit of God to bring an end to that violence and bondage.
That is the liberating work of the spirit of God even now, and if it is God’s work, it is our work.
As John Legend said, “Selma is Now!”
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two to three Black people were lynched every week in the American South. The same number of Black people are now killed every week now by white police officers; a Black person is killed every 28 hours at the hands of police.
To end this violence and bondage is the liberating work of the spirit of God today, and if it is God’s work, it is our work.
This we know: Nothing and no one will stand in the way of the liberating spirit of God.
I was stunned to read the results of an al.com poll about how people of faith should respond to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the failure to indict the police officer who shot him. Here are the results:
3.9% Hold a peaceful protest as a statement of solidarity
13.6% Work to prevent racial violence because it could happen in Alabama too
28.0% Pray for the Brown family and everyone who is hurting
54.4% This isn’t a faith issue. It’s a matter of law and order.
Over 54% chose “do nothing” (“This isn’t a faith issue”) over prayer (“Pray for the Brown family and those who are hurting”)!
Continue reading Lenten Reflection from Rev. Angie: Our Business
Instead of New Year’s resolutions, I have something else in mind: New Year’s Revolutions.
A revolution is a radical change, a change at the root, a complete turning.
A revolution casts out forces of death and replaces them with forces that are just and life-giving. Continue reading New Year’s Revolutions
