by Marcia Mount Shoop
Philippians 4:1-9
“White supremacy tells us there are good guys and bad guys; white supremacy teaches us to demonize and terrorize.
White supremacy teaches us to be fragile when we are called in about the impact of our actions and mentalities.
White supremacy teaches us to see an either/or world, when the world is just not that at all. Violence makes everyone less safe, and it feeds the delusions of binaries, the delusions of us against them.
War and terror are an affront to our humanity. Violence and oppression are an affront to our humanity. What does it take to stay with that layer of our shared existence? How do we resist the temptation to dehumanize, the otherize. It is in all of us–it is a fear response, a protective response, a trauma response.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 10/15/23 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 41:25)