Brittany Packnett Instagram – to my fellow lovers of Christ, in our Holiest Week: Who are we to be in this moment? How are we to live up to the image of God drawn on each of our faces right now? What shall we do to proclaim that we love God not with just our faith, but with our works? Is the slain and resurrected Christ not the image of the assault we lay on oppressed people—and our divine responsibility to transcend it? Is our risen Savior not a symbol of the duties of his followers? The crucifix on our necks and in our pulpits is a duty. A duty to love as He loves. To protect as He protects. To fight for Justice as He defines it and divines it. This is the battlefield we are on for our Lord. This Holy Week and every week, let us reflect the light of the Jew born in Bethlehem, in modern day Palestine, with skin of bronze and hair of wool, who came to set the captives free. ALL the captives. All the captives must be free. Thank you Rev. Brown Douglas, for always leading us back to our commission. 🍉 Repost from @episdivsch • “How can we watch deadly assaults on desperate people as they run toward trucks with food, and not with loud voice demand the bombing stop? How is it that we can remain virtually silent while 70% of people in parts of Northern Gaza face food shortages?” writes EDS Interim President the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas in her latest piece for @religionnewssvc. “Our humanity, that which signals what it means to be created in the image of a compassionate God, is fundamentally grounded in our ability to have empathetic regard for one another — to recognize the suffering and pain of another as if it were our own.” Click on these photos at the link in our bio to read President Douglas’ full op-ed.