{"id":16819,"date":"2023-02-21T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transformingcenter.org\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2023-02-25T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:18:48","slug":"season-19-lent-ash-wednesday-invitation-to-a-just-lent-learning-to-love-what-god-loves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transformingcenter.org\/2023\/02\/season-19-lent-ash-wednesday-invitation-to-a-just-lent-learning-to-love-what-god-loves\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 19: Ash Wednesday | Learning to Love What God Loves"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season we are focusing on justice as an aspect of spiritual formation and we believe Lent to be the perfect season to explore this connection. Using A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and the lectionary, we will look at various aspects of justice, its importance to God and why the church has often regrettably failed to live out God\u2019s call to \u201cdo justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this Ash Wednesday episode Ruth sits down with David Bailey and Tina Harris to examine the connections between Lent and pursuing justice as a spiritual practice. They name areas of injustice and do some definitional work around exactly what God\u2019s call to justice is. The three also speak candidly on why the white church has often failed to focus on this call, in both word and deed.<\/p>\n

To end they look at Matthew 6 for inspiration on practices and postures we can all have this Lenten season as we look to pursue justice as a part of our spiritual formation.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Bailey<\/strong> is a public theologian, culture maker, and catalyst focused on\u00a0building reconciling communities. David is the founder and Chief Vision Officer of\u00a0Arrabon, a spiritual formation ministry that equips the American Church to actively and\u00a0creatively pursue racial healing in their communities. He is the co-author of the\u00a0study series, A People, A Place, and A Just Society, and the executive producer of the\u00a0documentary 11 am: Hope for America’s Most Segregated Hour and the Urban\u00a0Doxology Project. David is rooted at East End Covenant Fellowship, serving on the\u00a0preaching team, and his greatest honor is to be married to his wonderful wife, Joy.<\/p>\n

\"TinaTina Harris<\/strong> is ordained in the United Methodist Church and holds a Master of Divinity from St. Paul School of Theology. She has served the church in a variety of roles, including Lead Pastor of Grand Avenue Temple UMC and Director of Mission, Service and Justice Ministries in the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church. Tina is passionate about community engagement and has served and\/or actively supported several civic organizations and ministries. As an attorney and diversity leader, a common thread in her work is to gather individuals into communities, challenge comfort zones and invite those whom society has overlooked to take their place at the table.<\/p>\n

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