Abolition Advent Calendar
This coming Advent, Join the Movement will be offering our third annual Abolition Advent Calendar, featuring reflections offered in daily emails and social media posts throughout the season. This year, our theme is “The Days Are Surely Coming: Reducing Harm, Preparing the Way.”
The days are surely coming, says the Holy One, when I will fulfill the promise I made to…execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:14-15
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Since our first Abolition Advent Calendar, the UCC’s Join the Movement toward Racial Justice initiative has embraced the season of Advent as an invitation to hold together visions of the future for which we are waiting and preparing and the recognition of how deep our longing is for that future to be made flesh in our midst. In this way, our practices of Advent are practices of abolition, because abolition calls us to dismantle the enslaving paradigms of our day as we imagine and prepare the way for a future of freedom and flourishing for all.
So this Advent, as we await and prepare for the coming of transformational Love in flesh and bone, we want to invite your engagement with generative connection between scripture readings for the season and contemporary abolition movements, in particular this year, the harm reduction movement. Each week we will explore one of the principles of harm reduction as the lens through which we are encountering the Advent scriptures and imagining abolition.
We hope you will make these reflections part of your waiting, hoping, and preparing this Advent, as you deepen your understanding of abolition as part of the work of practicing antiracism.
More Advent Resources
The UCC has even more resources to support you during this season! Sign up for Nurture the Soul's Advent event series. Download Sermon Seeds, Weekly Seeds, Worship Ways, music, and more for FREE! Purchase a copy of the Stillspeaking Writers' Group 2023 Advent Devotional for yourself and a few extras as gifts for your most reflective friends. Reflect as a community during Global HOPE's online Blue Christmas service. Learn about these resources and more in the coverage from UCC News.
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