TWIR 11.26.17 Special Episode: Thanksgiving? Thankstaking?

On this week's special episode, 3 of our podcast team talk together about how they learned the true history of "thanksgiving" and how we as white Christians can imagine and practice alternatives to perpetuating a narrative that legitimizes colonization and erases genocide. "I also was thinking about the fact that this idea of coming to table is so deep within Christian tradition, and that the Eucharistic table, the communion table, has been both a place where stories are told of that God has done or what we understand God to have done, and also what God will do, as sort of an eschatological imagination, and that table also has been a tool of empire, and also, at its heart, was a site of imperial memory. And so I don’t know if this is leading to any kind of concrete suggestions for what folks should do, but I think what I’m holding is the importance of memory and eating together and really just sinking into the anti-imperial sides of our traditions and the places where we gather at table." Check out the transcript with action ideas and resource links here: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html