Abolition Advent Calendar
As we approach the season of Advent this year, many of us find ourselves vacillating between feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, faced with rapidly changing political and social landscapes. Yet, Advent’s stories of awaking and preparing, waiting and longing, expecting and dreaming offer us visions to move us, values to ground us, and practices to empower us to bring love to birth in this world. So, this year’s Abolition Advent Calendar invites us to reach back to the wisdom of our scriptural and abolitionist pasts and make a way out of no way into hope.
This year our Abolition Advent Calendar will put in conversation quotes from Parable of the Sower, Advent scripture readings, and visionary practices drawn from Andrea Ritchie’s book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. We will also intersperse between scripture reflections the stories of past and present abolitionists to help us discover the wisdom they hold for freedom’s journey through each of us.
Our hope is to offer theological and scriptural musings that help enliven our imaginations of a future beyond “enslaving paradigms” and call us to abolitionist practices, as we deepen our denomination-wide understanding of abolition as part of our efforts to move toward racial justice.
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All that you touch
From Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
You Change.
All that you
Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is change.
God
Is change.
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