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SUMMARY:Execution Alert: Garcia Glen White
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we protest the execution of Garcia Glen White in Texas on October 1.\nTo act/learn more\, visit: Stop the Execution of Garcia White in Texas – Action Network\nLet us pray over the life of Garcia Glen White. Lord\, have mercy.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/execution-alert-2/
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SUMMARY:October Monthly Morning Prayer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for October’s Monthly Morning Prayer with our dear guest Danielle Strickland. Danielle wears so many hats – she is a Spiritual Leader\, a Justice Advocate\, a Communicator and Peacemaker. \nDanielle lets Love lead her to inspire\, challenge\, provoke and disrupt the present\, and to live in the future now. Having lived in different cultures and contexts around the world she celebrates diversity and deeply longs for wrong things to be made right. Danielle practices following Jesus daily. This pursuit has led to exciting entrepreneurial exploits (like co-founding multiple charities and non-profits) and a whole host of failures (that we don’t as often talk about). All of this has convinced her of the deep need we all have for hope\, faith\, and love. Her deepest longing is to demonstrate what living that boundless life looks like. \nDanielle has written six books (the latest is The Other Side of Hope)\, has a podcast called The Right Side Up (which recently celebrated half-a-million downloads)\, and speaks to people at events all over the world. Danielle leads Boundless Communications Inc. which launches creative exploits like Women Speakers Collective (liberating voices of women around the globe)\, IMBY (a tiny home movement IN MY BACKYARD)\, Brave Global (preventing human trafficking)\, Infinitum (a way of living deeply)\, and Hagar’s Voice (support and advocacy for survivors of abuse). She lives in Vancouver\, Canada with her three sons and husband Steve. Danielle loves getting outside\, doing new things\, physical adventures\, and she can’t seem to turn down a free lunch. \nShane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove will be hosting as always. We’d so love for you to join us as we pray and reflect on what it means to lead a Christ and love-centered life with intentionality. \nWe will be live on all of our socials; register to join us on Zoom!  \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!
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/october-monthly-morning-prayer/
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SUMMARY:SPECIAL EVENT: Faith Forum on Peace in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free and live virtual Conscientious Objectors’ Faith Forum on October 7 at 12 PM ET in honor of the lives lost on October 7 and since October 7.\n\nWe will be joined by people who refused to engage in the violence\, inviting us to ask the question\, “What does courage look like for me?” We welcome special guests from Israel and Palestine\, conscientious objectors who refused to fight for Hamas and for the Israeli military\, along with US veterans who became peacemakers. \n\nSofia Orr: Israeli conscientious objector who refused to serve in the IDF\nAhmed Helou: Former Hamas youth member who has lost over 80 family members to the war on Gaza\nJoy Metzler: U.S. conscientious objector and Airforce Academy graduate\, 2 LT\nDiana Oestreich: Peacemaker and former U.S. war veteran\n\nWhat better way to honor the lives lost on October 7th\, and since October 7th\, than by celebrating the courageous people who have refused to participate in the violence.  You will hear from modern day heroes for peace as they share their stories of why they choose not to participate in the escalating violence of war. And they will invite us to ask the question\, “What does courage look like — for me?”  \nThere is a rich history when it comes to conscientious objectors — people who refuse to fight in war because it violates their faith or conscience.  And in particular\, Christians who follow Jesus “the Prince of Peace\,” have been war resisters for centuries\, going back to the earliest days of Christianity.  Let’s take a moment to remember all the lives lost to war and rededicate ourselves to peace.  Violence only begets more violence.  We will not build a better world by killing each other’s children.   \nThis virtual event is sponsored by Red Letter Christians — and it is FREE and open to everyone. \nRegister to join here: RLC Faith Forum with Conscientious Objectors Registration – Zoom \nTo access additional resources for Conscientious Objectors\, click here.\n \nTo access additional resources for Conscientious Objectors\, click here.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/special-event-faith-forum-on-peace-in-the-middle-east/
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SUMMARY:National Christian Prayer Call on the Death Penalty
DESCRIPTION:Join Christians across the nation as we come into a space of power\, peace\, and prayer to honor this year’s World Day Against the Death Penalty. You’ll hear from death row exoneree Sabrina Butler-Smith and have time to join in prayer over some specific aspects of the death penalty: murder victims’ family members\, the federal & state death penalty\, people on death row\, policy & lawmakers\, and the hearts & minds of all in our country. You’ll leave challenged\, encouraged\, and equipped with resources to take your next steps in moving from awareness to action around the death penalty. No matter your view on capital punishment\, come to learn more and consider how Christians can respond to the realities of maintaining the death penalty as a response to harm. \nNational Christian Prayer Call on the Death Penalty (ejusa.org)
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/national-christian-prayer-call-on-the-death-penalty/
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SUMMARY:Execution Alert: Robert Roberson
DESCRIPTION:Join us to protest the execution of Robert Roberson in Texas on October 17\, 2024. To learn more about how you can help\, visit: Stop the Execution of Robert Roberson in Texas – Action Network\n\nTo act/learn more\, visit: Stop the Execution of Robert Roberson in Texas – Action Network\nLet us pray over the life of Robert Roberson. Lord\, have mercy.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/execution-alert-robert-roberson/
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SUMMARY:Execution Alert: Derrick Dearman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to protest the execution of Derrick Dearman in Alabama on October 17\, 2024.\nTo act/learn more\, visit: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-derrick-dearman-in-alabama/\nLet us pray over the life of Derrick Dearman. Lord\, have mercy.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/execution-alert-derrick-dearman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T180000
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SUMMARY:The Body of Christ in the American Empire (Red Letter Revival Night 1)
DESCRIPTION:On the first evening of the Red Letter Revival – Philadelphia\, believers will gather at The Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas to reflect on the chaos of injustice and ignite our spirits in preparation to birth a more just world with Christ’s love at its core. In this divisive election season\, we’ll explore how to strategize and mobilize to put love at the center of our policies on racial justice\, gun violence\, housing\, poverty\, voter engagement\, and war and how to uproot Christian nationalism which distorts our faith and threatens the neighbors we are called to love. \n\n  \nWelcome & Introduction:\nThe Very Rev. Canon Martini Shaw\, Seventeenth Rector of the Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas \nThe Rev. Charles (Chaz) Lattimore Howard\, PhD\, University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community\, University of Pennsylvania \nLisa Sharon Harper\, Founder & President\, Freedom Road LLC & Board Member\, RLC \nShane Claiborne\, Co-founder\, Red Letter Christians \nPreacher:\nRev. Traci deVon Blackmon\nRev. Traci Blackmon lives by the mantra: Faith hears\, Love heals\, and Hope builds. She is the Founder & Lead Consultant of HopeBuilds\, LLC\, a newly launched social impact firm that accompanies communities\, corporations\, and congregations eager to build the just and equitable worlds they imagine. HopeBuilds envisions a world where our greatest differences become invitations to shape collective narratives that serve as building blocks of hope\, empowering communities to thrive. \nFrom 2016 through 2023\, Rev. Blackmon served as Associate General Minister & Vice-President of the United Church of Christ\, a Christian denomination of approximately 750\,000 members dispersed among 5\,000 churches within the United States. In that role\, she led the Justice and Local Church Ministries. From 2009 through 2020\, Rev. Blackmon pastored Christ The King United Church of Christ\, a congregation anchored in Florissant\, MO\, in St. Louis County. Under her leadership\, Christ The King served as a sanctuary for community engagement\, and the denomination launched several anchor initiatives focused on congregational education\, engagement\, and social action. Following the police killing of Michael Brown\, Jr. in nearby Ferguson\, the church hosted the first city-wide community engagement meeting and remained a gathering site for faith-based organizing efforts. \nPrior to 2009\, Rev. Blackmon served as a pastor of Simpson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and worked as a licensed registered nurse\, healthcare administrator\, and community organizer for several healthcare delivery systems. She was appointed chair of the Criminal Justice Reform Task Force of the Ferguson Commission\, which released the ‘Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Toward Racial Equity’ report in 2015\, calling for sweeping changes in policing\, the courts\, child well-being\, and economic mobility. In 2012\, she was appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships by Barack Obama. \nRev. Blackmon currently serves on the boards of the Parliament of World Religions\, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference\, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She is an Auburn Senior Fellow and theologian in residence for Eden Theological Seminary. Rev. Blackmon earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Birmingham-Southern College\, a Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary\, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Eden as well. Traci is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority\, Inc.\, and is the mother of three adult children. \nFeaturing the Gospel Choir of The Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas.\n\nRegister Now\n\n 
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/philly-revival-night-one/
LOCATION:The Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas\, 6361 Lancaster Avenue (Absalom Jones Way)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19151\, United States
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SUMMARY:Setting the Table: Creating a Safe Space for Christian Women in Dialogue about the Future of our Nation and the Church
DESCRIPTION:As Christian women in this divided time\, we believe it is important to commune together through shared meals and to prayerfully listen to one another in order to ask what God is doing in this moment. How do we see this movement theologically and spiritually? It is through relationships with one another and the intentional building of mutual trust that opponents can become friends\, that we can speak to one another instead of past each other\, and that we can move forward together. \nThis event will include breakfast\, conversation at tables and a closing liturgy with Christian women leaders representing communities from a range of political perspectives. \nThis event is by invitation only as has a registration fee of $25. Please contact revivals@redletterchristians.org if you wish to attend.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/setting-the-table-virago-philly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T090000
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SUMMARY:Tour of Transformative Community Organizations in Kensington\, Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow co-conspirators for a tour of Kensington in North Philadelphia. \nRAWtools Philly \nSpend the morning turning guns into garden tools with blacksmiths from RAW tools Philly! Hear stories of magnificent transformation and deep trauma of grief and loss as you recommit to solving our problems without guns and violence. \nThe Simple Way \nVisit a community organization knitting neighbors together in a network of love and mutual support. The Simple Way has a garden and Food Choice Pantry. They offer support services and advocate for systematic change with other local partners when bigger systems throw obstacles in their neighbors’ way. See how this network of compassion allows neighbors Kensington to thrive. \nSimple Homes \nSimple Homes is dedicated to creating dignified\, affordable housing for low-income families in Philadelphia. Born from a collaboration between The Simple Way community and the Fuller Center for Housing\, Simple Homes revitalizes abandoned houses\, turning them into stable\, healthy homes. With over 20\,000 abandoned houses in Philadelphia and countless families in need\, Simple Homes is committed to transforming neighborhoods and ensuring that everyone has a place to call home. Their model\, proven effective in cities across the country\, focuses on building not just houses\, but a supportive and thriving community. \nDetails\n\nTour begins at 10:30am from The Simple Way: 3234 Potter St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19134\nThis experience requires roughly 20 minutes of walking\nRecommended optional donation: $35. This tour is free and open to the public.\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/tour-of-kensington-revival/
LOCATION:The Simple Way\, 3234 Potter St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19134\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Birthplace of Democracy: A Spiritual Pilgrimage
DESCRIPTION:Join with fellow co-conspirators on a pilgrimage through Philadelphia’s storied past. As part of the Red Letter Christians 2024 Philadelphia Revival\, this walking pilgrimage invites believers to trace the paths of those who stood for justice and embodied the love of Christ in the face of oppression and inequality. \nWith each stop\, we’ll pause to offer prayers and blessings\, led by voices committed to the Gospel’s call for justice\, peace\, and Becoming Beloved Community – right here and right now. We’ll visit sites where faith and action intertwined\, where the cries for freedom were lifted\, and where the seeds of a just society were planted. Along the way\, we’ll also highlight additional points of interest\, providing opportunities to delve deeper into the history and ongoing struggle for justice. \nThis pilgrimage is more than a journey through history; it is a call to action. As we reflect on the legacy of those who came before us\, we are reminded of the work still to be done. Together\, we will draw inspiration from the past to shape a future where Christ’s love stands against injustice\, where our faith compels us to act\, and where the vision of a just and peaceful world becomes a reality. \nJoin us as we hear these sacred stories affirming that Jesus and justice go hand-in-hand and commit ourselves to the work of building a society with love at its core. \nTentative Walking Pilgrimage Sites \n\nMeeting Point & Start of Pilgrimage: S Front St & Market St\nFront Street and Market Street where enslaved Africans were sold\nStatue of Tamaned (Lenape Chief) who engaged William Penn and other “settlers”/colonizers\nChrist Church\, site where several of the country’s worshiped\nBen Franklin’s House\nCongregation Mikveh Israel (Longest Running Synagogue in the U.S.)\nArch St. Quaker Meeting House\nSt. George Methodist Church\nNational Mint\nFree Quaker Meeting House\nFirst President’s Mansion where George Washington lived and owned enslaved people\nLiberty Bell\nIndependence Mall\nSansom Street Hall (Site of the 5th national Women’s Rights Convention) \nMother Bethel AME Church\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/pilgrimage-philly/
LOCATION:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Called to Community: Reviving Jesus’ Justice for Our Time (Red Letter Revival Night 2)
DESCRIPTION:“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny\, to a new plateau of compassion\, to a more noble expression of humanness.” \n– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? \nOn this second and final evening of the Red Letter Revival – Philadelphia\, believers will gather to breathe new life into Rev. Dr. King’s “revolution of values”: casting an alternative vision for the future where Christians can clearly see the synergy between faith and justice and understand how to work with churches\, organizations\, and activists working to realize this justice – right here and right now. \nInspired by the grace and wisdom of faithful speakers\, activists\, and artists\, we will collectively respond to King’s call to be creative dissenters and merge the resources\, vision\, and expertise of dozens of organizations and hundreds of leaders\, bending our collective path closer towards the world God intended for God’s creation. \n \nWelcome:\n\nLisa Sharon Harper\, Founder & President\, Freedom Road LLC & Board Member\, RLC\nShane Claiborne\, Co-founder\, Red Letter Christians\n\nWomanist Preaching Team:\n\nRev. Dr. Leslie D. Callahan\, Pastor\, St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia\, PA\nKimberlee A. Johnson\, D.Min.\, Dean\, Palmer Theological Seminary and Palmer College at Eastern University; Director\, Center for Community Engagement; Founder/Advisor\, Prison Education Program; Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary & Urban Studies\nDr. Anthea Butler\, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought; Chair of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\n\nMusicians & Artists: The Angels of Harmony from Eastern University \n\nRegister Now
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/philly-revival-night-two/
LOCATION:Friends Center\, 1501 Cherry Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Called to Community: Reviving Jesus’ Justice for Our Time (Red Letter Revival Night 2)
DESCRIPTION:“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny\, to a new plateau of compassion\, to a more noble expression of humanness.” \n– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? \nOn this second and final evening of the Red Letter Revival – Philadelphia\, believers will gather to breathe new life into Rev. Dr. King’s “revolution of values”: casting an alternative vision for the future where Christians can clearly see the synergy between faith and justice and understand how to work with churches\, organizations\, and activists working to realize this justice – right here and right now. \nInspired by the grace and wisdom of faithful speakers\, activists\, and artists\, we will collectively respond to King’s call to be creative dissenters and merge the resources\, vision\, and expertise of dozens of organizations and hundreds of leaders\, bending our collective path closer towards the world God intended for God’s creation. \nWelcome:\n\nLisa Sharon Harper\, Founder & President\, Freedom Road LLC & Board Member\, RLC\nShane Claiborne\, Co-founder\, Red Letter Christians\n\nWomanist Preaching Team:\n\nRev. Dr. Leslie D. Callahan\, Pastor\, St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia\, PA\nKimberlee A. Johnson\, D.Min.\, Dean\, Palmer Theological Seminary and Palmer College at Eastern University; Director\, Center for Community Engagement; Founder/Advisor\, Prison Education Program; Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary & Urban Studies\nDr. Anthea Butler\, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought; Chair of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\n\nMusicians & Artists: The Angels of Harmony from Eastern University \n\nRegister Now
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/called-to-community-reviving-jesus-justice-for-our-time-red-letter-revival-night-2/
LOCATION:Friends Center\, 1501 Cherry Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T190000
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SUMMARY:RLC Book Club with Eliza Griswold
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to have October’s featured guest Eliza Griswold talking about her latest book\, “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning of Love\, Power and Justice in an American Church” with Shane Claiborne and Katie Jo Brotherton. \nAbout the Book: \n“Circle of Hope” is an intimate portrait of a church\, its radical mission\, and its riveting crisis. “The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.” \nAmericans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. \nThis is the story of one such “radical outpost of Jesus followers” dedicated to service\, the Sermon on the Mount\, and working toward justice for all in this life\, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism\, Philadelphia’s Circle of Hope grew for forty years\, planted four congregations\, and then found itself in crisis. \nThe story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us\, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make “the least of these” welcome? \nBuilding on years of deep reporting\, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate\, immersive\, tenderhearted portrait of a community\, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation\, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts\, an increasingly politicized religious landscape\, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship\, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism\, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive\, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring\, searing examination of what it means for us to love\, to grow\, and to disagree. \nAbout the Author: \nEliza Griswold is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She writes for The New Yorker\, is the Ferris Professor and Director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University\, and lives in New Jersey with her husband and son. \nWe will be live on all of our socials. Register to join us on Zoom!\nFind us streaming live on Red Letter Christian’s Facebook\, Twitter\, or YouTube channels.
URL:https://redletterchristians.org/event/rlc-book-club-with-eliza-griswold/
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