Your Letters Needed to Fight Hunger!
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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9
- Roadmap to Ruin Video Series with Jemar Tisby – Four Sundays in August, 2025
- Follow-up Action Ideas from Participants
- Plan to show this video series to parents on Wednesday evenings when kids are in Kids Club at OSLC
- Work with Interfaith Council to have this series sponsored at more churches
- Participate in local protest rallies and identify ourselves as OSLC
- Plan a Faith Community protest along LeMay in front of our church (see attached photos for sign ideas!)
- Sponsor opportunities to learn how to better communicate, seek to understand differences, and find common ground with family and friends who disagree with us. (Braver Angels)
- Support businesses/schools/media that are being defunded and/or silenced (or boycott those that are funding or folding to authoritarianism)
- Follow-up Action Ideas from Jemar Tisby
- Awareness
- Define your vision and goals for awareness
- Form a “Legislative Watch Committee”
- Implement other ways to provide “head knowledge” toward education and understanding of the issues (weekly OSLC F&J Newsletter)
- Relationships
- Beating heart of justice is about people
- Reach out across backgrounds
- Center the marginalized – invite speakers and lift up their stories
- Provide a safe space for dialogue
- Partner with other advocates (Interfaith Council, ISAAC, Together Colorado, League of Women Voters) and support their work
- Beating heart of justice is about people
- Commitment
- Take action to change laws, policies, and institutions
- Awareness
- Follow-up Resources
- Indivisible Colorado sends out an excellent weekly CTA (Call to Action) newsletter (Subscribe here!)
- Watch We Hold More Political Power Than We Realize – Pillars of Support Explained by Choose Democracy to see how ordinary people can organize to challenge authoritarian power.
- Credible Witness is a weekly podcast exploring what it means to live out an authentic faith in today’s world. Each episode features a compelling story of a Christian leader navigating social tension and personal sacrifice in pursuit of their calling to follow Jesus.
- Three Documentaries Warn About Nationalistic Faith (A Public Witness-Brian Kaylor)
- The Christian Nationalist War on History (Jemar Tisby)
- Trump’s Religious Freedom Memo Is Good News for Christian Nationalists (Sojourners magazine article)
- Books & Films
- Follow-up Action Ideas from Participants