Are we complicit
when we stand in silence;
Pernicious discrimination
devaluing our neighbors.
Excluding them from
inclusion
blind to the judging;
Letting others abuse
our sisters and our brothers.
We must stand, we must speak
out,
God is calling all of us to an
awakening;
Looking at where boundaries
are established
when we create stumbling
blocks to full inclusion.
Not being silent before
those who separate
who judge our neighbors;
Standing in the breach
with our brother, our Savior.
We are called to this
mission, this purpose,
to speak out against repression;
The little insidious slights
uttered
and the pernicious patterns
of behavior.
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edited May 9, 2015
Pernicious – v2
May 27, 2011
Pernicious
racial bullying at Pembroke Academy
and
in part inspired by
conversations with
the
Reverend John Makokha
Riruta
United Methodist Church
Other
Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children
of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew
25:31-46
The
Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Matthew 28:18-20
Great
Commission
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