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Rev. Pamela Ngunjiri will help lead the Minnesota Council of Church’s truth-telling and reparations work

<Cross-posted from Healing Minnesota Stories blog by Scott Russell>

 

“We don’t always see the face of God in everybody’s face,” Rev. Pamela Ngunjiri tells her congregation. “And that’s the problem with racism. Somewhere along the line the humanity of that particular group has been taken away and that has to be restored.”

Statement on Killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center by Police

Minnesota Council of Churches Statement on Killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center by Police

 

Minneapolis, MN – (April 12, 2021) – Presiding Elder Stacey Smith (President), Rev. Dr. Curtiss Paul DeYoung (CEO), and Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs (Director of Racial Justice) of the Minnesota Council of Churches, issued this statement:

 

The prophet Jeremiah cried out:

 

A Blessed Ramadan Story

This story, stemming from a Blessed Ramadan sign, brought tears to audience members at a luncheon. It came to us from a Twin Cities Metro Area clergyperson:

Today I wasn’t home when our groceries were delivered. My husband was home.

When he answered the door, the delivery man asked, “Is that your sign?”

My husband said yes, although to be honest he most likely wouldn’t put up a sign if I weren’t here to ask him to because he likes his privacy and prefers not to draw attention.

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