Excerpt from the Sep - Dec Call to prayer by Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield:
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:13-14
More and more each day we are bombarded with “identity politics,” the system that labels people and forces them into artificial homogenous groups. Once identified with a certain group, assumptions are without regard to individual truth, followed by rigid rules and protocols for dealing with members of the group. Most often the labels affixed are pejorative adjectives-turned-nouns: Bigot, Racist, White Supremacist, Leftist, Deplorable, Pro-birther. Once the label is attached, the individual is typically subjected to unfair ad hominem attacks: slurs and criticism aimed at a person’s appearance, ethnicity or character, (based on emotions and not logic), instead of that person’s position or arguments on issues. Such labeling invites wicked discrimination in many arenas of work and social order, and often escalates to physical harm, as we have seen in the streets of our nation’s cities in recent months.
(Click the button below to read the whole call to prayer. You may download and print the prayer Sep-Dec calendar using the button at the bottom of this email. For those who receive the print version it will be a few days late, but should arrive in your mailbox next week.)
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