Mindful Musings Blog

• Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
• Taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. (Paul will be sharing in December.) Consider:
  • When was the first time you became aware of, resisted, questioned, or were confused by race or racism? By class or classism?
• Planning ahead, we’re earmarking Tricia Hershey’s Book Rest is Resistance for discussion in December. 

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Love, Power and Liberation with Angela Davis and Lama Rod Owens (from Signe)
• Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa (from Judy)
• 4-min excerpt of the James Talarico video we watched together in Sept (Christianity vs. Christian Nationalism). If you can’t access this (it’s through Facebook), try the full sermon
• (from Signe) Podcast: The Beinart Notebook – good conversation about Jews and Palestinians
• (from Beverly) New Yorker Radio Hour on the complexity of being biracial in America 

• Poem: At the Age of 18–Ode to Girls of Color (Amanda Gorman)
• Poem: A Portable Paradise (Roger Robinson)
• Film Screening Bad Faith: Christianity’s Unholy War on Democracy. Sponsored by the Sonoma County North Bay Organizing Project Religious Leaders Caucus. 
• Film (90 mins): The Color of Fear
• Book: The Power Worshippers; Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart (this link to author’s website has info about the film God and Country, which is based on the book).
• “God & Country” Exclusive Webinar Discussion

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)