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SUMMARY:Struggle & Lament: Lenten Series 2025 with Freedom Church of the Poor
DESCRIPTION:The Freedom Church of the Poor is a spiritual and political home for movement leaders. We believe in the fundamental dignity and value of all life and in a world of justice and abundance where all can thrive. We gather as a community of faith to support and care for each other. We commit to realizing the abundant world that God promises by identifying\, developing\, and uniting leaders who will build a movement to end poverty led by the poor. In this community and through our commitment to this struggle we also seek to re-discover and share a vision and a practice of religion that is rooted in truth\, justice\, and love. \nLENTEN SERIES 2025 \nOn The Way: Struggle & Lament w/ Freedom Church of the Poor \nThis Lenten season (Struggle and Lament) each of our Sunday services will focus on one of these final days of the last week of Jesus’ life. Each of these final days hold deep insights about the “way” that was revealed through Jesus’ life\, his ministry\, suffering\, death\, and ultimately\, resurrection.  This way leads to direct confrontation with a system of domination. It leads to violence and death\, but it also leads to clarity about how we get organized and fight meaningfully and effectively for God’s promise of justice\, love\, and abundance for all. As the Freedom Church of the Poor we will gather for these seven Sundays to learn how to organize against the forces arrayed against our people today and to refine our tactics and strategy for building a broad social movement. Drawing primarily from the Gospel of Mark – a wartime Gospel that anticipated the forthcoming brutality of the Roman Army –  we will gather as a political and spiritual community to sing\, to lament\, to pray\, and to strengthen our collectivity by holding and caring for each other. We know that Jesus came not to condemn us\, but to teach us how to fight for the justice and liberation of all of God’s children here on Earth. \nSeason Overview \n\nWednesday\, March 5th – Ash Wednesday (Isaiah 58:1-10)\nSunday\, March 9th – Day 1\, Palm Sunday (Mark 11:1-11)\nSunday\, March 16th – Day 2\, Monday: Overturning the Tables (Mark 11:12-19)\nSunday\, March 23rd – Day 3\, Tuesday: What God? Who Speaks for God? (Mark 11:27-13:37)\nSunday\, March 30th – Day 4\, Wednesday: Discipleship (Mark 14:1-11)\nSunday\, April 6th – Day 5\, Thursday: The Kingdom of God (Mark 14:12-72)\nSunday\, April 13th – Day 6\, Friday:  Participation Not Substitution\, Life Not Death (Mark 15:1-47)\n\nSpecial Holy Week Services \n\nApril 15th Turning Tables Tuesday\nApril 17th Maundy Thursday\nApril 18th Good Friday\nSaturday\, Apr 19th – Day 7\, Saturday: The Sabbath\, a Taste of What is to Come (Daniel 12:2-3; Sibylline Oracles (3:751-55\, 781-84); Matthew 27:51-53)\nSunday\, April 20th  – Easter Sunday: Pesach (Mark 16:1-8)\n\nSunday Services are available via Zoom Room + Live Stream* starting at  6:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM CT | 3:00 PM PT *Live-streamed Services will only be live for the first 30 minutes and then Zoom only for open reflections. Bible Study (Zoom Room Only) Wednesdays\, March 5th-  April 9th 3:00 PM PT | 5:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM ET *Spanish Interpretation Available | Interpretación en español \nFreedom Church of the Poor gathers online every Sunday at 6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT via zoom and other social media platforms. \nFor more details: Freedom Church of the Poor – Kairos Center
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SUMMARY:Stop the Execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina
DESCRIPTION:Brad Sigmon\, 63\, is scheduled for execution in South Carolina on March 7\, 2025 for the murders of David Larke and Gladys Larke.\n \nThe following comes from our allies at South Carolinians for Alteratives to the Death Penalty. \nBrad Sigmon’s case highlights the troubling flaws in the justice system’s treatment of people who’ve experienced childhood trauma and undiagnosed\, inherited mental illness. His case also shows that nobody is beyond redemption if we are given the chance to become different people. Please take consistent action in the coming weeks for #ClemencyForBradSigmon \nBrad is a caring and hardworking Christian man. Despite a childhood marred by his father’s alcoholism and physical abuse and his mother’s instability and neglect\, Brad began working factory shifts as a teenager so that he could buy food for his brothers and sisters. Brad also worked to keep their spirits up\, shielding them from the horrors of their childhood with jokes and acts of tenderness. When his younger brother was injured and could not walk without pain\, Brad\, then 13\, would carry him everywhere on his back. \nIn his thirties\, Brad\, still reeling from his childhood traumas\, succumbed to a severe\, inherited mental illness that\, at the time\, went undiagnosed and untreated. The nature of the crime and his behavior at trial was the product of this disorder\, which caused manic episodes that left him unable to recognize or control his irrationality. \nBrad is deeply remorseful. In prison\, he has dedicated himself to his faith as he seeks repentance and forgiveness. As one minister observes\, Brad could be “an informal chaplain on Death Row because of the ways he pastors and mentors his fellow inmates.” \nBrad has not been involved in a single violent incident in his more than twenty years on death row. Because of his maturity and respect for security officers\, they recognize him as a good influence on his fellow prisoners and have trusted him with many responsibilities\, including passing out food trays\, cleaning\, running the laundry\, and “assist[ing] the community with whatever they need.” \nBrad remains a source of strength\, spiritual discernment\, and support to all who know him. He has maintained a close bond with his siblings\, who have depended on his deep faith and steadiness while navigating the death of their father and the disabling illnesses of their mother. \nBrad is himself in deteriorating health. Now 67\, he has suffered at least one stroke and\, due to a near-total blockage of his carotid arteries\, is at great risk for another. \nBrad would be the oldest person ever executed by South Carolina. Executing the man who Brad is today because of the tormented and ill man he was more than twenty years ago\, would accomplish nothing. It would only deprive the many people who have come to appreciate and even rely upon Brad—his family\, prisoners\, guards\, and ministers—of his example and aid. \nWe\, the undersigned\, ask that you do everything within your power to stop this execution\, including issuing a stay\, and seeking a path to clemency in the case. \nThank you for your time and attention to this serious matter. \n\nUnder South Carolina law\, Brad Sigmon has to make a choice to die by lethal injection\, electrocution or by firing squad. \nSouth Carolina is making itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty. The majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions\, and increasingly\, states are abolishing the practice altogether\, including the southern state of Virginia. \nPlease sign the petition asking Governor Henry McMaster to do everything within his power to stop this execution\, including issuing a stay\, and seeking a path to clemency in the case. \nPetitions will be delivered on your behalf in advance of the execution. \nLearn more & take action with us here.
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