People Amidst Revolution
To live is Christ. As a people with God - who are attentive - we consider the community where revolution happens to us as we participate in the co-creation of the kindom. Throughout the summer, we consider our deep joy and calling, reading the book of Philippians and subversively showing up in spaces to live and expand communal capacities. We put into practice being rested and ready, experiencing communal protections inherent to life in Christ.
Quick Links:
Week by week:
WEEK BY WEEK
May 31st/RETREAT #1: Re-membrance - Friday and Saturday camping with Sunday Gathering at 10am White River Campground (at Koteewi)
June 7: People Amidst Revolution + Series Intro - Phil 1
June 14: Every Saint - Pride Brunch - Phil 4.21
*June 21: A History of Revolution with Haughville Walk and Talk - Phil. 1.3 and 12
June 28: Revolutionary Minds - Phil 2:1-11
July 5: Fueling for Revolution + Brunch Sunday - Phil 1.28
*July 12: Stars with Irvington Counseling Collective - Phil 2:12-18
July 19: A Revolutionary Faith - Phil 3:7-11
*SATURDAY, July 25: Pressing with Octavia’s Visionary Campus (OVC/Kheprw) - Phil 3:12-14
August 2: Look Out! + Brunch Sunday - Phil 3.2
August 9: Glorious Bodies with LiveFree - Phil 3:17
*Aug 16th: Co-Laboring - IYG visit
Aug 23rd: Revolutionary Action with The Avenue Foundation - Phil 4:8-9 & Phil 4:10-23
*Aug 30/RETREAT #2: Rejoice! - Friday and Saturday camping with Sunday Gathering at 10am White River Campground (at Koteewi)
September 6: Grace Be With You + Brunch Sunday - Phil 4.23
Discussion Prompts:
Discussion/Further Wonderings:
Re-read today’s text. How are you being re-membered (as a human being), re-membering who God is, and being re-membered to community?
How does having the mind of Christ inform your posture when facing systems that make a home for a dehumanizing climate?
In an unsettling time, how can we actively participate in our own communal protections by ensuring we both give and receive care and support?
Play and creativity are serious business when we show up subversively. Where is the Spirit prompting you/us to turn our attention to joy, delight, and the unexpected?
The things that make your soul come alive are worthy of the peace of God. Is your attention being drawn elsewhere? If you let your gaze settle there, where might you imagine it leads. (“If you weren’t here, where would you be?” - what makes you a person?)
We are called to be "rested and ready" for obstacles. What specific spiritual or communal "practices" (e.g.hospitality or listening) can we utilize to be "primed to respond" when disrupting challenges arise?
Paul references a whole group of co-laborers in this letter that make the community at Philippi possible. How do your faith "co-laborers" (your relationships within the community) provide the spiritual and physical resilience needed to endure and press on?
Resources
Parent Cue:
Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints
Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
https://revolutionarylove.org/learn/early-childhood/#ece
General:
Philippians Bible Project (blog)
Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Miriam Kaba (available for free on various online/audio book sites)
The Emperor of Gladness By Ocean Voung
https://revolutionarylove.org/ - Valerie Kaur
Full of Myself by Austin Channing Brown
All the Black Girls are Activists by ebonyjanice
Subversive Witness by Dominique Gilliard
Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
Indy Trinity Music on Spotify (also a great way for children to learn songs in order to more fully participate in Gatherings)
The Arts:
Image credit: Alex Quezada