Sojourners Verse and Voice – 19 June 2023

Verse of the day
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

– John 16:24

Voice of the day
Through it all, through the Middle Passage and American slavocracy and Jim Crow and Black criminalization and the new form of Jim Crow in this 21st century scourge of lynching, I find it remarkable that Black people have still created a culture of joy.

– Rev. Eboni Marshall Turman, “The Black Church Has Always Resisted Anti-Blackness”

Prayer of the day
God of liberation, we celebrate the emancipation of Juneteenth. We hold this in tension with the reality that not all are free; may we labor for the liberation for all.