Coming up: this season: 2 Wednesday eves: our Keystone Lenten study: @ zoom with Pastor Lauren:
Wed. Mar. 10, 6:30-7:30 pm (try the checklist on p. 44)
Wed. Mar. 17, 6:30 -7:30 pm
Well hello here comes our season when we recall how Jesus turned toward Jerusalem and faced the truth, and we take time to get more real. Well how bout this year's Lent on the heels of already walking through our dumpster fire of a year?! We are still in it, and still with one another, day in and day out, still reflecting upon our mortality every.darn.day! But as more get closer to getting vaccines, what might bring us closer together in our virtual season of Lent, when we traditionally remember we are from dust, and to dust we shall return? These are our 6 weeks for contemplation, leading toward Easter. We often add a nurturing self discipline or try adding a helpful practice for 40 days. This year you are invited to do some searching amidst this beloved community of faith. This has been a year of reckoning and witness with Black Lives Matter movements, of which we have been a part.
Our inward and outward search brings us to a couple nights of supportive discussion study on 'Uprooting Racism'. Come to discover many intersections, in our racial, economic, and environmental justice efforts. A small group at Keystone has been helping to prepare our focus to especially examine our Christian tradition's complicity in white supremacy. We will strive to lovingly probe our call to become stronger anti-racist actors in all our varied advocacy and activism, for the healing of our world.
Give yourself time on these two Wednesdays (or also some Mondays, see below) for our Uprooting Racism discussion online. Take a fresh look at your ongoing work, in the company of others committed to growing their faith & action. RSVP
Also: Come to Mondays that you can; and read what pages you can! Keystone small discussion group with Pastor Lauren: Uprooting Racism: Cheat Sheets come in your email:
Mon. Jan. 25, 8-9 pm, p. 1-25.
Mon. Feb. 8, 7-8 pm, p. 25-50.
Mon. Feb. 22, 7-8 pm, p. 50-75.
Also Quarterly Monday Meetings via Admiral UCC: Uprooting Racism (if you opt in) start Mon. Mar. 22, 7-8:30 pm, (different zoom link with Registration below, through Admiral UCC, West Seattle & West Side Unitarian) with a Keystone small break out group, p. 1-75.
Details:
Uprooting Racism: study opportunities: take a short deep dive on the 2 Wednesdays; or, take a longer term discussion (more Mondays), with Paul Kivel's work. Both offer an intimate conversation group with others @ Keystone. We are talking through our own histories, stories, & experiences, as we encourage one another to act ever more faithfully for racial justice.
Here is a local Seattle bookstore you might support if you can, as you grab your own book: Estelita's Library- Justice Focused Community Bookstore.
Or get started here: 25 pages posted here (Thanks Admiral UCC!)
Note: The longer track: that just meets 4 times quarterly, with the Monday March 22 begin date, joins other PNC folks & Admiral UCC. It does, however, still include a Keystone break out group, as a workshop space to apply learnings for our particular church setting. (We each can Register here.) See the promo materials are here, and you can get more info: www.AdmiralChurch.org/UprootingRacism. 100% of registration fees will be donated to the Poor People's Campaign for Moral Revival. Talk toLaurenfor more info -or for the sliding scale option.
Zoom: gatherings with Keystone occur online in the same space we use on Sundays & Wednesdays, so a Cheat Sheet will come in your email. Note: the Mar. 22 track with Admiral UCC will use a different link, that will be shared, after you register (Then see you in the Break Out Room!)
Lenten Study: Keystone UCC online: Uprooting Racism: Mar. 10 & 17