https://joelssermons.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/20170430sermon.mp3
Texts: Mark 3:1-6; Nehemiah 5:1-13
These shirts are going to be great for BREAD gatherings and the softball team and Pride parade and other events, but my favorite part is that I can get away with wearing a tshirt to church once a year. Very comfortable.
Tomorrow evening members of 40+ congregations across Franklin County will gather at the Celeste Center at the fairgrounds. We are white, black, and brown; Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Anabaptist, Unitarian Universalist. We’ll be joined by public officials with whom BREAD has been in conversation over the last months, and in some cases years. We’ll ask them to publicly commit to working with us to achieve some very specific solutions to problems we’ve been researching. Such as: creating a municipal ID card for immigrants and homeless folks to better access city services; preferential contracts from the city for companies that employ workers with criminal records who otherwise find it nearly impossible to get a job, and implementing restorative practices in Columbus City Schools to reduce suspensions and the school to prison pipeline that disproportionately affects people of color.
These are all big issues, each one, and I frequently wonder if BREAD bites off more...