a jubilee celebration on the eve of the solstice: the poor people's campaign goes public

If you have not yet checked in with the Poor People's Campaign for a National Moral Revival, you owe it to yourself to do so ASAP. For the past few years, this broad inter-faith, inter-disciplinary coalition has been building bridges and now they are going public in a big way. If you have been despairing, not just because of the current regime (although that swamp is an ethical black hole), but because of the renewed presence of white nationalist domestic terrorists and other forms of intolerance, you need this boost. Run, do not walk, to:

https://www.june2020.org 

You will want to make time for this conversation, too between Bill Moyers and his long-time friend, the Rev. Dr. James Forbes. It is equally edifying and insightful. Especially on the same day that the regime holds its Coronavirus-Fest in Tulsa.

https://billmoyers.com/story/bill-moyers-talks-with-dr-james-forbes/. My old professor of homeletics at Union Theological Seminary and pastor emeritus at the Riverside Church in NYC said:

I hope that white people can see there’s no need to deny any longer. There’s no need to lie any longer. There’s no need to claim somebody else and blame somebody else for the evils of the past. They are part of our history. I hope that they would be able to see how great will be the day when we, having made peace with the evils of the past as our evils, but accept the grace of God as forgiveness, and the invitation of God to be participants in building the new reality, the new world. I hope white people can see forgiveness is available if you decide you want to be a part of the human race in unity and justice and peaceful resolve. I hope they will see the prospect of living in the forgiving grace of God, and walking toward the beloved community, or as we like to say, the more perfect union.

Perhaps you'll want to join me, too tomorrow, Sunday, June 21st @ 9:55 am on my spiritual direction page on Face Book - Be Still and Know  (go to:

https://www.facebook.com/Be-Still-and-Know-913217865701531/) as I look at some of the connections between the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist and the prophets testifying in our streets on the eve of the Summer Solstice.