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​Street Spirituality

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In Street Spirituality, we ground ourselves in ancient spiritual practices from the past, and yet we draw our theology from the present - from the streets - "from the cauldron of everyday life, of hardship and trials" - while being in conversation with theologies of freedom movements rooted in the daring and dangerous love of Jesus, our movement founder.


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RESOURCES

Online Conference / Training​
  • How To Be An Anti-Racist (FB Reading Group) - This group is for people to read and discuss the findings of this book and racism itself.   
  • Sep 14, 16, 21, 23 - Anti-Racist Primer for White People 
  • 8 Online Classes that help you Examine Your Own Bias
  • Race & Social Justice Events (compiled by UNM)
  • Antiracism Groups, Trainings, Conferences
  • Resources from World Trust: Social Justice & Equity 
  • UnTraining: Healing Personal & Social Oppressions

Anti-Racism Resource Links​
  • Resources from Allies for Change
  • The Truth & Titus Collective
  • Reading List, Videos, Kids Resource
  • Compiled Resources
  • For Parents, Social Media, Organizations 
  • Resource Links (Includes Topics on Healing & Wellness)​
  • The Movement for Black Lives
  • Know Your Rights Camp

History
  • Seeing White (Podcast): The History & Meaning of Whiteness
  • History of Racial Inequality & Justice in the U.S.
  • American History: How racist policing took over American cities
  • A Brief History of Slavery & the Origins of American Policing​
  • Why Black Lives Haven’t Mattered: The Origins of Western Racism in Christian Hegemony

Videos
  • What is Systemic Racism (by Race Forward)
  • Tedx Talks on Racism
  • Anti-Racism as Violence Prevention (by Futures Without Violence)
  • 21 Anti-Racism Videos To Share With Kids
  • 13th - the film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States.

Articles
  • Answering White People's Most Commonly Asked Questions
  • Racism Defined by Dismantling Racism Works
  • Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement - Here's What You Missed
  • Recent Article by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
  • Kadir Nelson's "Say Their Names"
  • Recent Interview with Robin DeAngelo, author of White Fragility
  • Recent Articles by Ibram X Kendi, author of How to Be An Antiracist​
  • What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently
  • Five Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts​
  • Why You Need to Stop Saying "All Lives Matter"
  • 75  Things White People Can Do
  • Where You Can Donate to Help Protests
  • How to Support BLM in Albuquerque​

Books About Racism
  • Ibram X Kendi: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
    • ​How to Be An Antiracist
  • Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • ​Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law: Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America​​
  • Peter Jarret-Schell: Seeing My White Skin: A Story of Wrestling with Whiteness
  • Robin DeAngelo: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
  • Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
  • ​Paul Kivel: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
  • Books by Tim Wise
  • Books Against Policing & Mass Incarceration​
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
  • Edward Galeano: The Open Veins of Latin America
  • Debra Van Ausdale: How Children Learn Race and Racism
  • Glenn Singleton: Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • Education Justice Reading List
  • Joan C. Williams: White Working Class
  • Russell Hochschild: Strangers in Their Own Land
  • J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

​CURRICULUM ON ANTIRACISM FOR CHURCHES
  • Sacred Ground - A Film-Based Dialogue Series on Race & Faith (Episcopal Church)
  • White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformation Dialogue (UCC)
  • Examining Whiteness: An Antiracism Curriculum (UU)

THEOLOGY, FREEDOM MOVEMENTS​ & CHURCH
  • Mark Hamilton: Jesus, King of Strangers: What the Bible Really Says About Immigration
  • Diana Butler Bass: Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship
  • Rita Nakashima Brock: Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
  • Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion 
  • Jemar Tisby: The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism​
  • Eric Mason: Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
  • Paul Kivel: Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony
  • bell hooks: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love
  • Paolo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed​
  • Walter Wink: The Powers That Be
  • Rosemary Radford Ruether: Sexism and God-Talk (Feminist Theology)
    • Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
  • Nadia Bolz-Webber: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
  • Rachel Held Evans: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
  • Jay Emerson: Gender, Sexuality & the Bible (PDF)
  • Matthew Vines: God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
  • Colby Martin: UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality
  • Patrick S. Cheng: Radical Love: An Intro to Queer Theology
  • Gustavo Gutierrez: A Theology of Liberation
  • Robert McAfee Brown: Liberation Theology: An Introductory Guide​ 
    • ​Spirituality & Liberation
  • James Cone: Black Liberation Theology
    • ​​The Cross and the Lynching Tree
  • John Cobb: Process Theology
  • John Shelby Spong: Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
    • Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile 
  • Kwok Pui Lan: Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology

SPIRITUALITY 
  • God's Call to Creativity & Adventure
  • Cliff Edwards: Van Gogh & God​
  • Marcus Borg: Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time​
  • Richard Rohr: Contemplation in Action
  • Engaged Spirituality: Ten Lives of Contemplation and Action 
  • Parker Palmer: The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, & Caring
  • Dorothee Soelle: The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
  • Sarah Miles: Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
  • Laura Swan: The Forgotten Desert Mothers
  • Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces 
  • Poetry: Jellaludin Rumi
  • Frank Ostaeski: The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully 
  • Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times 

PRACTICAL SKILLS
  • Engaging Difference as Spiritual Practice ​
  • TEDx: Brene Brown: On Vunerability
    • On Shame
  • On Loss & Grief​
  • Centering Prayer & Buddhist Meditation in ABQ
  • Rule of Life​


ON THE LEARNING PROCESS
​from the co-founder of "Seminary of the Street"
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We are taking heed the invitation of the Rev. ​Lynice Pinkard which is to participate in a transformative learning process for people who want to be part of building the new world we all know is coming. It is a world that is radically welcoming and inclusive, invested in the flourishing of all people and creation. However, there is a risk. Walter Brueggemann reminds us that the life of faith and hope is dangerous and not a convenient one. He writes:

"Hope is inescapably inconvenient and eventually dangerous. Because hope contradicts the present world, it is inconvenient. Thus Abraham had to depart his home country to receive God’s promise. The first disciples of Jesus, “left everything” to follow. The hopers of faith have understood that God’s newness disrupts a comfortable life. That newness summons us out of our comfortable zone to be with folks we might not prefer, doing tasks and taking risks we might not easily choose." 

"Soon or late, hope brings us into conflict with the forceful powers that defend the status quo - that will go to great violent ends to protect that status quo. Thus Moses finally had to confront Pharaoh. Esther risked her life to confront the king. Jesus had to face the violent power of Rome. And we know that Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr, Oscar Romero and the missionaries killed in El Salvador, and so many others. Most of us will not go so far as such danger. All of us, however, are invited the inconvenience of God’s newness. And once we go there, who knows what risks may follow." 

(from Sojourners: "The Company of the Unafraid" by Walter Brueggemann)

As we embark on our journey as hopers of faith, I invite you to learn St. Mark's Song of the Month "Another World," click on the photo below, or this link.
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​Donnel Miller-Mutia
- chaplain, grief support specialist, relationship educator, artist
- shares arts and skills to aid your growth in the fullness of life. 

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    • Dragon
    • Sower
    • Cracked Jar
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