False Prophets don’t speak for me! For decades, the religious right has aligned itself with the Republican Party’s powers-that-be in an attempt to monopolize public conversations about faith and define what it means to be a “values voter.” But Faithful America members have been standing up to those who are hijacking Jesus’ name and trying to baptize their oppressive and harmful policies. Learn more about the 2024 False Prophets inductees as well as those already in Faithful America’s False Prophets Hall of Fame. #FalseProphetsDontSpeakforMe
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. – Matthew 7:15
Inspire us, God, to do one thing. One thing for justice. One thing for peace. One thing for love. Inspire us, God by doing one thing to do more. More for justice. More for peace. More for love. This day.
Every day. Through Jesus, we pray. Amen.
inspired by the Guns to Garden panel, James Atwood Institute for Congregational Courage
Labor Day. Check out a mini concert for Labor Day by my friend Eric Law. Walking. Albuquerque. 9 To 5 – Dolly Parton Workin’ At The Carwash Blues – Jim Croce The Hands That Built America (Theme from “Gangs of New York”) – U2 She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer Worker’s Song – Dropkick Murphys Livin’ On a Prayer – Bon Jovi Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman Working Class Hero – Green Day Working Man – Imagine Dragons Working On The Highway – Bruce Springsteen Joe Hill – Paul Robeson There Is Power in a Union – John McCutcheon Las Madres Cansadas – Joan Baez We’Re Still Here – Si Kahn Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant Bread and Roses – Judy Collins Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron More Than a Paycheck – Sweet Honey In the Rock Ship In The Sky – Woody Guthrie Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Happy Labor Day! As a Christian. I along with many members of Faithful America, support living wages, labor rights, and safe working environments for all God’s children — yet these fundamental freedoms, along with our democracy itself, are at stake in this upcoming election. Project 2025, the MAGA movement’s Christian-nationalist agenda for another Trump term, is not only a major threat to justice for all but also to our basic freedoms. Trump can try to distance himself from the plan after public backlash, but we know his plans for a second term are nothing short of an authoritarian power grab. Learn more about the dangers of Project 2025.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20
Morning movement. Apartment. Pacing. Apartment. Chair stretching. Apartment. Navajo Code Talkers Day. Navajo Code Talkers – Jack Gladstone The Navajo Code Talkers – US Air Force Academy Band Navajo Code Talkers – Bennie Shay Navajo Code Talkers – Jay Begaye
John McCutcheon birthday. All songs by John McCutcheon unless otherwise noted. Welcome The Traveler Home – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin We Shall Rise Christmas In The Trenches-Song Greatest Story Never Told Children Of Abraham All God’s Critters Somos El Barco Cross That Line Streets Of Sarajevo Crazy Or Courageous Immigrant Hope Dies Last Te Recuerdo SuAnne Big Crow Sara Tucholsky The Great Storm Is Over Water From Another Time Stone By Stone No Mas! When I Grow Up How Can I Keep From Singing? Hobo’s Lullaby Wish You Goodnight Calling All The Children Home One Strong Arm Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon In America – Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon Loggerman’s Breakdown/Dulcimer Reel This Road Picture Of Jesus The Rebel Girl Shadowland Reasons To Believe Kindergarten Wall Here On The Islands Doing My Job – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin We Are Not Alone Step By Step Turn, Turn, Turn – John McCutcheon, feat. The Steel Wheels Well May the World Go – John McCutcheon feat. Hot Rize
Walking. Treadmill. Flex Appeal. Stretching. Apartment. Hiroshima Day Thousand Cranes – Hiroshima Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette – Jim Page A Thousand Paper Cranes – MONO I Come And Stand At Every Door – Anne Hills No Nuclear War – Peter Tosh Nuclear War – Yo La Tengo Hiroshima-Nagasaki – Ozymandias Enola Gay – Utah Phillips Sadako – The Sands Family Nagasaki no Kane – Meisterbrass Quartet & Yumi Aikawa Yuuji Koseki When the Wind Blows – Eric Bogle Ippon No Enpitsu – HIbari Misori Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Jamaican Independence Day Jamaica, Land We Love – The One World Ensemble (The Jamaican National Anthem) Throne 2:38 Koffee Rapture EP Reggae 0 2 We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals History of Jamaica – Early B The Song My Mother Used to Sing – Dennis Brown Jump Independently – Count Lasher Teach the Children – Dennis Alcapone Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians Rebuild Jamaica – Lee “Scratch” Perry I Shall Be Free – Toots & The Maytals Independence Ska – The Baba Brooks Band Jamaican Spirit – Stacious I Am Jamaican – DahNiel-Jae Sweet Jamaica – Casey Donaldson Jamaica Jamaica – Tricia Cunningham One Jamaica – Kimiela Candy Isaacs Fi Mi Island Home – Sister Novelette Jah Love This Land – Lex M.D Jamaica Is A Big Brand – TrishMaq Waa Back Jamaica – Renzzah Proud Jamaican – Auraiya Hope Better Jamaica – Reggae Maxx We Are Jamaicans – Pepita
Emancipation Day celebrated in many Caribbean countries and Canada to mark the abolition of enslavement in the British Empire. Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Apartment. Black My Story (Not History) – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers African – Peter Tosh Justice – Sevana For the People By the People – Dezarie Is It Because I’m Black – Syl Johnson Hello Mama Africa – Garnett Silk Slave Queen – I Threes ‘Til I’m Laid to Rest – Buju Banton Slavery Days – Burning Spear Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers Too Long In Slavery – Culture Ain’t Gonna See Us Fall – Sizzla That Day Will Come – Capleton What Ah Day – Tanya Stephens Free Up – Tarrus Riley & Zagga Steppin’ Out of Babylon – Marcia Griffiths Freedom Train – Toots & The Maytals Black Woman – Judy Mowatt Train to Zion – Linval Thompson, feat. Sizzla & Bounty Killer Unchained – Bob Andy Equal Rights – The Heptones Born Free – Queen Ifrica Rivers of Babylon – Sublime African Message – U-Roy African Unity – Majek Fashek
Walking. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment. Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume (feat. Chantal Kreviazuk) You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq Run Sister Run – Cass McCombs Through The Flood – Indian City Say Her Name – Bear Fox To All MMIW – Northern Cree Highway of Tears – Layla Zoe The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists, Kitsumkalum First Nation, BC Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists, Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation Blackbird – Emma Stevens Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda Missing You – Joanne Shenandoah Little Star – iskwē acākosīk M.M.I.W. (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) – Jahkota [feat. LB, Drezus & Cleo Big Eagle] Lost Souls – Tom Jackson We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan Artists, Sk’elep School of Excellence, B.C.
24 April 2024 Mexico-US Border Essie Koenig-Reinke We held a ceremony and cross planting for Otilio Juarez Perez, a migrant who died in 2005 while crossing the border in the Pinaleño Mountains. Many of our students from Menaul gave purple flowers as an ofrenda.
