Last week I tried to mute myself and I urged you to listen to some of the voices of black, indigenous and people of color. I was challenged to do this by a friend, because those voices have much more relevant things to say than I do about what’s happening in this country right now.
Part of the challenge I described last week included reflecting on what that experience was like, and I will do that, but it’s late on Wednesday and I can’t do justice to that question tonight.
I want to encourage you to click back to last week’s post and listen to some of those voices, or others that you are finding in your own ways. I’ve added quite a few more, and will keep doing so over the coming week.
I’d love to hear from you with your own stories of how you’re listening to BIPOC voices in this time, wherever you’ve found them, and what you are learning about yourselves and our nation along the way. You can count that as my challenge for June, although I can’t bring myself to call it “practicing foolishness” this time. It feels so serious.
One more thing: I hope you see that listening to melanated voices is a #FoolishChurch matter. If we’re going to love well, we’re going to have to really listen, really hear people we didn’t before. Will you join me in trying?
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I just read these comments after I received your blog for the first time today (June 17).
I appreciate your comments and need to continue to take to heart your words that “if we are going to love well, we’re going to have to really listen, really hear people we didn’t before. I will indeed join you in trying,