The Crucifixion of George Floyd

This will be a week of silence, prayer, and lament on the blog. If you visit this week, I invite you to join with me in this prayer practice.
Everyday, set a timer for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. Lament and cry out to God during this interval for all the black lives that have died under the knee of a white supremacist and Christian nation.
Weep and lament.Offer up prayers of confession and repentance.Pray for peace.Ask for wisdom and courage as you discern the work God is calling you to.
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There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice...
Until we can see the cross and the lynching tree together, until we can identify Christ with a “recrucified” black body hanging from a lynching tree, there can be no genuine understanding of Christian identity in America, and no deliverance from the brutal legacy of slavery and white supremacy.--James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree