Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Elle Dowd (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Easter 4, which falls on April 25th this year, including our deep dive into prison abolition!
The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. Don’t forget to check out and pre-order Elle’s books, Baptized in Tear Gas: from White Moderate to Abolitionist! We talked about Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and Faith-Rooted Organizing by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel, which you can look for on bookshop.org. Also, if you want to learn more about the organizations Elle’s advance is supporting, they are: SOUL, Action STL, Mike Brown’s mother’s organization, Michael O. D. Brown, Mike Brown’s father’s organization, Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation, and the Chicago Bond fund.
CN: Arrest, police brutality, & the carceral system in the Deep Dive
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