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SUMMARY:March Monthly Morning Prayer with RLC UK
DESCRIPTION:Join us for March’s Monthly Morning Prayer with Sally Mann\, David Mann and Faith Van Horne from Red Letter Christians\, UK in conversation with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. \nWe will be reflecting upon the latest release by RLC UK: “Jesus & Justice: Stories of Radical Christian Living.” This book was released on Feb 14 and is available from www.redletterchristians.org.uk. \nThe compilation brings together 25 authors from across the UK\, writing about their lived experience of seeking Jesus and justice in their communities. They speak honestly\, from the heart\, in accessible stories. This is not a heavy theological book trying to have the last word. It’s a moving collection of ‘first word’ stories to encourage you. \nThe authors’ stories are grouped around verses from the beautiful vision of Shalom in Isaiah 65:17-23. It explores eco-justice\, poverty and placemaking\, housing\, migration\, economics\, education and criminal justice. Added within it are five dialogues from leading British theologians and experienced activists. These appear in summary at the end of every section. You can view longer 20 min recordings of these dialogues for FREE on http://redletterchristians.org.uk. \nWhichever theme you start with\, you can listen to conversations and use them to spark discussions in your church or community. This book will inspire you with what is possible when a Jesus-centred faith is at the heart of activism. \nAs for our RLC UK guests and dear friends\, they\, of course\, need no introduction. \nSally Mann is Co-Director of Red Letter Christians UK and has a PhD in Philosophy and Theology and is senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Greenwich. She is Senior Minister at Bonny Downs Baptist Church\, where she is the fourth of five generations of her family to stay put and serve in that East-End community. Sally has written a book\, Looking for Lydia: Encounters that Shape the Church\, reflecting on 25 years of ministry in London through the stories of encounters in Acts. \nDave Mann is Co-director of Red Letter Christians and has been in church leadership for 30 years. He is director of Seedbeds UK\, joint minister of Bonny Downs Baptist Church\, East Ham and chair of Bonny Downs Community Association. Dave is involved in the governance of three school academy trusts and chairs a community development charity\, Community Albums which is committed to building better communities through music and media. He coached and captained West Ham United’s over-50s walking football and is chair of Newham Cricket Club. He is also London and South East regional coordinator for Urban Expression. \nFaith Van Horne is co-director of Red Letter Christians UK alongside Dave Mann and Sally Mann. From Pennsylvania and Ohio in the United States\, she is a Doctoral Researcher in Theology and Religion at University of Birmingham\, UK. She studies doctrine from a trauma-informed perspective\, seeking to articulate a more embodied\, creation-redeeming vision of Christian faith. \nMorning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book\, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. You can follow along with the readings from Common Prayer at commonprayer.net for free! \nWe’ll be live on all our socials; register to join us on Zoom:\nREGISTER HERE \nAll are welcome; we’ll be live on all our socials! Twitter\, Facebook\, and YouTube.
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SUMMARY:RLC Book Club with Liz Cooledge Jenkins in conversation with Susan Wood
DESCRIPTION:Join us for April’s Book Club with RLC friend and featured guest Liz Cooledge Jenkins in conversation with Susan Wood to discuss her latest book\, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism.” \nThe book explores how even in the warmest and most welcoming evangelical churches\, patriarchy looms as an ever-present force\, suppressing women’s possibilities and debilitating whole communities. Well-intentioned churchgoers and church leaders have bought into deeply-entrenched male-dominated mindsets\, power structures\, and theologies that are not working—not for women\, and really not for anyone. \nPart memoir and part faith-based feminist manifesto\, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy” takes an unflinching look at the ways misogyny’s subtler forms impact every aspect of women’s experiences in church. From leading a church college ministry\, to attending seminary\, to eventually developing the confidence to preach\, Liz Cooledge Jenkins weaves together her own journey with reflections on biblical interpretation\, church history\, and intersectional feminism. \nAfter confronting misogyny’s faces head-on\, Liz goes on to explore how we can build better faith communities together. For all who long to see women’s gifts greeted in churches with gratitude rather than a suspicious side eye\, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy” points the way. \nJenkins is a writer\, preacher\, former college campus minister\, and author. She writes at the intersections of faith\, feminism\, and social justice\, and her work can be found at places like Sojourners and The Christian Century—as well as her new Substack\, Growing Into Kinship\, and on Instagram @lizcoolj and @postevangelicalprayers. \n\nLiz lives in the Seattle area with her husband and their black cat Athena\, where she enjoys hiking\, swimming\, attempting to grow vegetables\, and drinking a lot of tea. \nZoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-uuqzwjGtJ9oghg-v1gB2CeKf1OUn61 \n\nWe’ll be live on Twitter\, Facebook and YouTube; register to join us on Zoom. \nFind us streaming live on Red Letter Christian’s Facebook\, Twitter\, or YouTube channels and register to join us on Zoom: \nRegister Here Now on Zoom or join us live on Facebook or YouTube.
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SUMMARY:Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage\, Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, March 24 (Palm Sunday) through Friday\, March 29 (Good Friday) \nWhere: From the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia\, PA to Lockheed Martin headquarters in King of Prussia\, PA \nConvened by: Red Letter Christians\, Freedom Road\, Fellowship of Reconciliation\, the Society for Faith and Justice\, Rainbow PUSH Coalition\, and more. \nREGISTER TO JOIN US\n  \n\nAs Mary wept over Christ’s body\, this Lenten season we are all mothers in Gaza weeping over the dead — over 30\,000 killed since October 7\, 2023 — senselessly from us by bombs and bullets and indifference. Like the people of Gaza today\, Jesus was born as a refugee\, in the middle of a genocide in an occupied land.  This Palm Sunday to Good Friday\, we will demonstrate with our bodies and prayers the urgent cry for a ceasefire. As Christ said: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they are the children of God.”  Not in our name\, not in the name of our Savior Christ\, the Prince of Peace! \nBetween March 24 (Palm Sunday) and March 29 (Good Friday)\, when Christians around the world remember the crucifixion of Jesus\, followers of Jesus and friends will walk 20 miles (almost the length from Gaza City to Rafah)\, approximately four miles per day; observing the ‘Stations of the Cross’ on each day. Walking from The Liberty Bell to Lockheed Martin\, the world’s largest weapons contractor\, participants will reflect on Jesus’ Passion and Death and our nation’s complicity in decades of bombings in Gaza\, including the current carnage. The Philadelphia pilgrimage is part of the global ‘Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage’ movement. \nAt Lockheed Martin\, Philadelphia-based and national theologians and activists\, including Shane Claiborne\, Lisa Sharon Harper\, Ariel Gold\, Linda Sarsour\, Rev. Mark Thompson\, and others will\, filled with the spirit of God and an unflinching commitment to nonviolence\, engage in prayerful direct action calling on God to stop the flow of machines of death from the U.S. to the world. This spiritual act of resistance aims to send a message urging the Biden administration to call for a ceasefire and stop or condition weapons exports to Israel being used to kill and maim civilians and violate human rights. \nWe call for: \nAn immediate and permanent ceasefire\nUnfettered and robust entry of humanitarian aid\nThe immediate release of all hostages\nAn end to Israel’s systems of occupation and apartheid\nThe elimination/restriction of U.S. military assistance to Israel such that it does not fund violations of human rights\, including collective punishment and the targeting of civilians \n\n\nCore Convictions of the Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage\, Philadelphia (in alignment with The International Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage):\n  \nWe oppose all forms of hatred\, racism\, and discrimination\, including antisemitism\, anti-Arab racism\, Islamophobia\, and homo and trans-phobia. We affirm the truth that all people\, regardless of race\, ethnicity\, sexuality\, gender identity\, or nationality are created in the image of God. “Our battle is not against flesh and blood” but against the Powers of domination\, oppression\, and violence. \nWe believe in and adhere to nonviolence in strategy\, principle\, and philosophy. As communicated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, who got his inspiration from Jesus Christ and his techniques from Mohandas K. Gandhi: \nPrinciple one: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil. It is aggressive spiritually\, mentally and emotionally. \nPrinciple two: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. The result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation. The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community. \nPrinciple three: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice\, not people. Nonviolence recognizes that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people. The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil\, not people. \nPrinciple four: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform. Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation. Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities. \nPrinciple five: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body. Nonviolent love is spontaneous\, unmotivated\, unselfish\, and creative. \nPrinciple six: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice. The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win. Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.” \nAs we express our solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against settler-colonialism\, we are cognizant of and in solidarity with First Nation peoples of the Philadelphia area\, the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking and the Poutaxat (Delaware Bay). We seek the blessing and collaboration of the First Nations Peoples of the land on which we walk and recommit ourselves to the work of healing-justice for all indigenous people. \nWe engage in the Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage as an act of repentance and lamentation for our collective sins of omission by not taking action for Palestinian liberation and our collective sins of commission by allowing ourselves\, our houses of worship\, and our government to support and contribute to 75 years of oppression of Palestinians and a genocide occurring in real-time in front of our eyes. \nWe welcome our Muslim\, Jewish\, Hindu\, Buddhist\, agnostic\, atheist\, and other allies. We affirm the interconnectedness of our different faiths as we seek together to eliminate the war\, violence\, and hatred that are abominations in the eyes of our collective God. \nREGISTER TO JOIN US\n\n\nRoute:\nDay 1: Sunday\, March 24\, 2 PM\, walk from the Liberty Bell to the Philadelphia Zoo – 2.7 miles \nDay 2: Monday\, March 25\, 10 AM\, walk from the Philadelphia Zoo to the Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas – 3.3 miles \nDay 3: Tuesday\, March 26\, 10 AM\, walk from the Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas to Bryn Mawr – 4.3 miles \nDay 4: Wednesday\, March 27\, 10 AM\, walk from Bryn Mawr to Eastern University – 4.2 miles \nDay 5: Thursday\, March 28\, walk from Eastern University to the King of Prussia Mall – 3.9 miles \nDay 6: Good Friday\, March 29\, 10 AM\, walk from the King of Prussia Mall to Lockheed Martin – .6 miles. 12 PM\, Good Friday service \nREGISTER TO JOIN US\n\nWhy Lockheed Martin: \nLockheed Martin supplies the Israeli government with a wide variety of weapons\, including fighter jets\, attack helicopters\, and missiles. Many of these weapons are given by the U.S. to Israel through the almost $4 billion Israel receives annually in Foreign Military Financing. \nSince the 1970s\, Lockheed Martin’s F-16 has been the Israeli Air Force’s “most important fighter jet\,” taking part in all of Israel’s major military assaults on Gaza. The newer Lockheed Martin F-35 is the most advanced warplane used by the Israeli Air Force. \nBetween 2004 and 2009\, Lockheed Martin supplied Israel with at least 102 F-16 fighter jets. Between 2016 and 2021 they supplied Israel with at least 50 F-35 fighter jets. \nLockheed Martin also provides Israel with its M-270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)\, a mobile system that fires a torrent of surface-to-surface rockets. The Israeli military used the MLRS to fire cluster munitions during the 2006 Lebanon War in attacks that Human Rights Watch deemed to be of “an indiscriminate and disproportionate character\, in violation of international humanitarian law.” \nDuring the 2008–2009 assault\, Israeli F-16s were used to target civilians\, civilian homes\, and refugee camps. The attacks killed numerous Palestinians\, including 22 members of a single family\, 12 of whom were children under the age of 10. \nDuring Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza\, Lockheed Martin Hellfire missiles were used to kill at least 51 people\, including 24 children. \nDuring the 2021 offensive\, F-16s—described as the “mainstay of the bombardment”—were documented\, for example\, bombing Gaza City’s  Rimal neighborhood\, as well as residential buildings and the offices of news organizations\, including Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. \nIsrael’s current war on Gaza\, which heavily relies on Lockheed Martin weaponry\, has killed almost 30\,000 people\, about a third of which have been children. \nIn December 2023\, as Israel was two months into carrying out genocide in Gaza\, the U.S. rushed Israel F-35 weapons capabilities and spare parts to the country. In January 2024\, the U.S. and Israel reached a deal to supply Israel with large number of F-35 and F15 fighter jets as well as Apache helicopters. \nOn February 12\, 2024\, The Dutch Court of Appeal in the Hague ordered the Netherlands government to stop exporting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel due to there being “a clear risk that serious violations of humanitarian law of war are committed in the Gaza Strip with Israel’s F-35 fighter planes.” \nREGISTER TO JOIN US\n\nFrom the organizers of the pilgrimage: \n“One of the central convictions of Christianity is that there is a God who is near to the suffering\, to the poor\, to all those who are victims of violence.  When asked where God is amid the violence in Gaza\, Palestinian theologian Munther Isaac responded: “God is under the rubble.”  On Good Friday\, Christians around the world remember in a special way that Christ is God’s act of solidarity\, as he endured the most horrific violence on the cross\, and subverted it with love\, forgiveness\, and an empty tomb.  It is Christ who said\, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they are the children of God. It is Christ who rebuked his own disciples when they wanted to call down “fire from heaven” on the people of Samaria. And it is Christ\, who scolded Peter when he resorted to violence\, saying to Peter\, “Those who live by the sword\, die by the sword… put the sword away.”  As many fellow Christians bless the bombs falling on Gaza\, bombs made at Lockheed Martin… we say NO\, not in our name\, and not in the name of our Savior.  As many Christians try to defend the violence of Israel being done in planes made by Lockheed Martin\, we are calling for a ceasefire\, and an end to the violence in the name of Christ\, the Prince of Peace.”
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