In order to love one another as Jesus commanded we have committed ourselves to spending time each week in contemplative practices to consider the ways we fail to resist cruelty and injustice. Services last about 30 minutes and will include prayer, meditation and occasionally discussion.
SOLIDARITY RESOURCES
RECOMMENDATIONS to READ (Web)
- 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
- Who Gets to Be Afraid In America - The Atlantic
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
RECOMMENDATIONS to READ (Books)
- Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism by Carolyn B. Helsel
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta Ahmed
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
RECOMMENDATIONS to WATCH
- Just Mercy (The Movie) is available to watch on Apple TV, FandangoNow, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, Redbox, the PlayStation Store, Vudu, Microsoft, and YouTube. The movie is most likely available On Demand through your cable provider as well.
- Our Boys (HBO)
- When The See Us (Netflix)
- Black Panthers Whites Lies | TEDx talk from Curtis Austin
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
- A list of Black-owned businesses in Nashville to support CLICK HERE
- The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration & The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
- The Confession of 1967 (Part of the PCUSA Book of Confessions)