Middle Church

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Ben Perry, Edna Benitez, Dominique Jackson, Lee Hill, preachers

• Today’s scripture speaks of a year of jubilee, a time every 50 years for a complete reset and restore. How can we work for a jubilee for this nation—a time to stop trying to make things work that are broken at the core and, instead, reset and restore so that all may thrive?

Bishop Yvette Flunder, preacher

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

Michael Livingston, preacher

• We’re in a moment of sacred space between the divine and human, between divine promise and human possibility, between heaven and earth, between what can be and what is. Can we make democracy real? Can the news of freedom, though late, be true? Can we laugh like Sarah at the promises of God and give birth to our hope in every generation?

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• What does this sermon call you to be and do in the matter of Black lives? • Learn about ways you can take action at 10 Ways to Fight for an Antiracist World - https://www.middlechurch.org/news/10-ways-fight-antiracist-world

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

•Pentecost is a miracle of communication. What are you called to communicate in the matter of Black Lives and how. •Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates God’s law being given to the people. What is God calling us to do right now? What’s your role in it? •Register for themaster class, The Call of This Moment: An Anti-Racism Workshop with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewison June 17 and 18.

Chad Tanaka Pack, preacher

•What battle are you fighting today? How might you use divine love in battle? •How might the idea of a yin-yang Jesus Christ deepen your understanding of him?

Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, preacher

•Where are we finding/looking for God? What have we wrongly constructed and worshipped as God? •God is not far from us because “we too are God’s offspring.”How might we live differently as God's offspring? What does it mean to be offspring of God?

Jacqui Lewis and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs, preachers

No matter your ethnicity or gender, become a student of Black Feminist thought: Consider getting a copy of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines(edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs). Follow her @alexispauline Immerse yourself in the poetry ofAudre Lorde at poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lordeand follow the Audre Lorde Project (ALP.org)

Matlin Gilman, preacher

• Jesus made love go viral in tough times by socially distancing periodically. How can we use this time to get clear about how to make love go viral?

• Get educated about the way COVID-19 is ravaging the poor and Black and Brown people. Follow the Poor People’s Campaign/William Barber, Ruby Sales, and Traci Blackmon. • Read and Write: Read Amos, Chapter 5, The Message version, every day for the next week. Each day after reading, write a letter demanding a response to COVID-19 that acknowledges the poor, Black and Brown people, the essential wor...

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, preacher

• What would it take for you to imagine being on the other side of this moment? • What does it mean to care for the Earth? • What do you need to rethink, reread, or reimagine in order for us to move forward more justly?

• Before there were buildings with stained glass windows, there was a church. The church was the people and the first preacher was Mary. What are you called to preach right now and to whom? • In the midst of this pandemic, what are you rising to? • How does this moment make you want to use yourself and your resources?

Jacqui Lewis, preacher